- 1. "ACNE: A Memoir" explores the awkward teenage years and 2 other books about finding yoursel
- (Books)
- ... inequality, and shares her opinion on the ableist themes in 1999’s The Bone Collector. The collection offers a meticulously curated look at who Wong is: a superhero who never needed a cape. –SHANNON CARLIN ...
- Created on 17 October 2022
- 2. Fans Criticized Beyoncé and Lizzo For Using the Same Slur in Their New Songs So They Changed the Offensive Lyrics
- (Music)
- ... as it is regarded as an ableist slur. The disrespectful word is often used in reference to people with spastic diplegia (a form of cerebral palsy). The problematic lyric in “Heated” is “spazzing on that ...
- Created on 09 August 2022
- 3. Pu*sypedia is the Inclusive and Essential Online Health Resource You Need to Reference (Even If You Don't Have a Vagina
- (Feminism)
- ... ones that aren’t patriarchal, misogynist, ableist or heteronormative," Conejo added. "It is important to use inclusive language because the world is not binary as we have been taught, sexuality and gender ...
- Created on 28 February 2022
- 4. Want More Body Positive Kid's Books? Start Doing Better By Fat Characters, Says Children's Book Illustrat
- (Books)
- ... supremacist, ableist ideals of health and beauty. And children’s books, unfortunately, do their part in that messaging, through both overt stereotyping, covert coded language or visuals, and complete invisibility ...
- Created on 25 February 2022
- 5. Former Glossier Employees Demand Reform Opposed To Boycott In Response to Racist Workplace Culture
- (Style)
- ... white feminists ensure and ultimately created: just because it is women owned, specifically white woman owned, led or created does not mean it cannot be racist, transphobic, or ableist. There always ...
- Created on 20 September 2020
- 6. Marianne Williamson Isn’t The Spiritual Feminist We Need Right Now
- (Living)
- ... pattern of America’s ableist undertones. Moore wrote, “Disabled people... face unscientific thinking, unsolicited advice, fear of ‘Big Pharma,’ and toxic positivity all the time.” Moore’s response to this ...
- Created on 01 August 2019
- 7. What It's Really Like To Date While Managing A Chronic Illnes
- (Living)
- It was early summer, and I’d been sitting on the sofa, sort of reading a novel, when the text came. “Do you fancy going out sometime?” it asked. I was thrilled; it was from a guy I’d recently met who ...
- Created on 18 January 2019
- 8. A Call-In To White Feminists About "Surviving R. Kelly
- (Feminism)
- ... our calls for justice, rather than relying on a racist, cissexist, ableist, homophobic, classist “criminal justice” system to help us as a society move past our racism, cissexism, ableism, homophobia, ...
- Created on 11 January 2019
- 9. Same-Sex Mice Can Have Kids Thanks To Science
- (Living)
- Scientists in China are helping mice of the same sex bear pups with gene editing and stem cells. A new study shows the first time that pups born from male mice were carried to full term. Previously, ...
- Created on 12 October 2018
- 10. How The Medical System Is Failing Women With Chronic Illness
- (Living)
- There is an epidemic within the medical community of doctors gaslighting women with chronic illness. In her Medium article "Healthcare is Sexist," Katharina Schöffmann details her experience with Endometriosis. ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
- 11. Company-Wide Vegetarian Policies Like WeWork's Are Ableis
- (Feminism)
- ... I asked myself, "Is this ableist?" "No!" I thought immediately. “Vegetarianism in service of environmental sustainability is a public good! If a company wants to decrease its greenhouse gas emissions and ...
- Created on 03 August 2018
- 12. This Beauty Brand Seriously Needs To Work On Its Names For Makeup For Dark Skin
- (Style)
- ... that it is also a vile racist and ableist insult. If enough people of colour were involved in the naming of these products, I highly doubt that this would have been overlooked.” The beauty industry in ...
- Created on 22 September 2016
- 13. Adventures In Feminism And Hearing Loss: BUST True Story
- (Feminism)
- ... sentiments trigger my anti-feminist and ableist defense shields. The reality is that every day, there are deaf women living safe and complete lives. I cannot and will not opine on behalf of deaf women ...
- Created on 29 April 2016
- 14. Kylie Jenner Poses in Wheelchair, Disability Activists Respond
- (Living)
- The Kardashian/Jenner clan keeps us living and kicking—whether that’s because they’re hosting obscenely over the top weddings, starting a million businesses, screaming at us on Snapchat, or because, ...
- Created on 01 December 2015
- 15. Street Harassment: Know Your Rights
- (General)
- ... anywhere, and in many different forms- whether it's sexist, racist, transphobic or ableist other otherwise. It's already difficult to know the different definitions of street harassment and local laws within ...
- Created on 16 October 2014
- 16. Armpits4August Ditches the Razor for Women’s Health
- (Feminism)
- ... more than an idea. “We acknowledge that not everyone has the same opportunity to take part in Armpits4August and that in a racist, sexist, classist, disableist, trans*phobic and lesbophobic society, some ...
- Created on 28 August 2013
- 17. Abercrombie & Fat - A&F Ads Reimagined by Badass Fat Chick
- (General)
- We’re right in the thick of this ongoing Abercrombie & Fitch fat-hate – the sizeist comments keep coming – but never fear! Jes from TheMilitantBaker.com has the best response yet. Jes reimagined ...
- Created on 22 May 2013
