- 1. Growing Up MLM: LuLaRich, The Sticky Ideology Of MLMs, and Reflections on Being the Child of a Mary Kay Recruit
- (Living)
- ... are original (they’re not, as the documentary expands on) or that Mary Kay doesn’t test on animals (they do). At the root of all this pain is good faith effort in the service of a white, middle-class ideology ...
- Created on 23 September 2021
- 2. Khadijah Robinson's 'The Nile List' Is the Easiest Way to Discover and Support Black-Owned Bran
- (Living)
- During last year’s BLM uprising, Google Trends Data showed a 300 percent increase in the search “How to find a Black-owned business in my area?” Khadijah Robinson, a lawyer based in D.C., makes this ...
- Created on 07 May 2021
- 3. For Vegans, The Birth Control Pill Can Be Hard To Swallow
- (Sex)
- Some say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, but the use of milk sugar (lactose) and other animal products in birth control pills may be hard for animal lovers to swallow. While eliminating ...
- Created on 08 February 2021
- 4. Entrepreneur Tennille Teague Gives Us A Lesson On Carving Your Own Path (While Saving The Animals)
- (Living)
- ... been the foundation of her career. As a longtime animal advocate and pet parent, animal welfare has been a driving purpose for as long as Teague can recall. Combining her two passions, Teague recently ...
- Created on 05 February 2021
- 5. How Georgian and Regency Literature Shaped Society's View Of Cat
- (Books)
- ... as favorably as dogs. Part of this can be blamed on the literature of the day. In stories featuring animals, courage and loyalty were traits frequently assigned as canine virtues, while cats were often ...
- Created on 08 May 2019
- 6. Astrologer and Host of "Ghost Of A Podcast" Jessica Lanyadoo Spills On Healing And Connecting The Stars With Politic
- (Entertainment)
- ... a medium, and an animal communicator (like Dr. Doolittle, but with lipstick and better hair). I also am a podcaster, tarot reader, writer and a teacher. How do you find inspiration to make your podcast, ...
- Created on 03 May 2019
- 7. How The 19th Century Recognized Their Obligation To Proper Animal Welfare
- (Living)
- ... generally focused on environmental issues such as the effects of greenhouse gases. Instead, those in the 19th century—and Victorians especially—focused on conservation and man’s treatment of animals. The ...
- Created on 24 April 2019
- 8. This Recording Of Immigrant Children Forcibly Separated From Their Parents Is Hard To Listen To, But You Need To
- (Feminism)
- A recording of children’s voices from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Facility has been released and it is heartbreaking. In the recording, you can hear the wails of ten children, ranging ...
- Created on 19 June 2018
- 9. The Original "Beauty And The Beast" Was VERY Different From Than The Disney Movi
- (Books)
- ... In fact, according to one Victorian scholar, tales of humans cursed to live as animals owed more to the ancient belief in metempsychosis than to morality and romance. Metempsychosis, or the transmigration ...
- Created on 30 May 2018
- 10. 11 Unique Gifts You'll Just Want To Keep For Yoursel
- (Style)
- ... Tracy Perkins runs Strawberry Hedgehog as a "one-woman show." She is vocally against animal cruelty and works as a professor at her local community college to teach students about sustainable practices. ...
- Created on 14 September 2017
- 11. 7 Vegan Bloggers To Follow On Instagram For Yummy, Easy-To-Make Meals
- (Eat Me)
- ... a reduced environmental footprint, or not contributing to animal cruelty. However, with veganism becoming more popular, high-end restaurants can demand more money for healthful and aesthetically pleasing ...
- Created on 27 July 2017
- 12. When Victorians Kept Monkeys As Pets
- (Living)
- ... were not always so harmless. They were wild animals and despite some of them having been raised by humans, they were still quite unexpectedly aggressive on occasion. There are various accounts of monkeys ...
- Created on 14 June 2017
- 13. Would You Leave Your Kitty At A Cat Boarding House?
- (Entertainment)
- ... cats. Americans were dealing with starving cats in the summer as well. For them, cat boarding houses were an equally satisfactory solution. An 1889 edition of Our Dumb Animals (published by the Massachusetts ...
- Created on 12 October 2016
- 14. How Annie Sprinkle Went From Golden Age Porn Star To Queer Icon And Feminist Activist: BUST Interview
- (Sex)
- ... house in San Francisco and also a cabin in the redwood forest. Clean, free, abundant drinking water is a human right and super important. We want clean air and fertile land. We care about non-human animals, ...
- Created on 25 July 2016
- 15. The Criminal Case Of The Victorian Cat Ladies
- (Living)
- ... Birmingham Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to answer to the charge of: “...unlawfully beating and ill-treating a cat, belonging to Ann Lloyd of Llandudno Villa, Sparkhill, on November ...
- Created on 12 July 2016
- 16. What Makes Mean Girls Mean?
- (Feminism)
- ... animals using “odor signals” as an important part of competition and interaction. But the study that sparked the most media buzz was conducted by Tracy Vaillancourt, a psychology professor at the University ...
- Created on 28 April 2016
- 17. This Inspiring Chinese Woman Saved 100 Dogs From a Dog-Eating Festival
- (General)
- ... and torture when cooking the dogs—and organizations like the Fight for Animal Cruelty Laws in China are fighting against the festival. So is this woman, Yang Xiaoyun. This badass 65-year-old woman ...
- Created on 23 June 2015
- 18. Elephants Absolutely Do Not Belong In The Circus (Good Move, Ringling Bros.)
- (Entertainment)
- Good news, circus fans: Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus are planning to eliminate acts featuring elephants by 2018. This particular circus has been using animal acts since P.T Barnum began ...
- Created on 06 March 2015
- 19. McDonald's Asked This Indie Band To Play For Free At SXSW—And Their Response Was Perfection ...
- (Music)
- ... burger joint has a reputation for treating their workers poorly (and their animals, too), but we get the feeling respecting these musicians for their hard work with a little compensation won't exactly break ...
- Created on 05 March 2015
- 20. American “Beagle” Outfitters Might Just Break The Internet
- (Style)
- This is the cutest thing I have seen today: Major props to American Eagle Outfitters for making a fake line for animals (complete with a mockumentary) to help raise money for rescue organizations. ...
- Created on 27 March 2014
