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CUNY Students Demand University Observe Major Muslim Holiday Eid Al-Fitr
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(Living)
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City University of New York students are demanding the university system cancel class on May 13 for Eid Al-Fitr, the Muslim celebration of the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Over 13,000 people ...
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Created on 11 May 2021
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Boob Tube: Celebrating Five TV Moms We Love For Mother's Da
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(TV)
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... Her character has written-in shame because she is a divorcee, not a widow like her new husband, but she perseveres through the stigma and demands that she be treated right. Though she is shut down many ...
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Created on 07 May 2021
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Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
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(Living)
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... or empowering women—and that sadly remains true today. Desperate women with little sexual health information and restricted access to birth control believed Lysol. Stuck between stigmas and superstitions, ...
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Created on 25 March 2021
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8 AAPI Organizations To Support Right Now
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(Feminism)
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... safe spaces for AAPI to openly discuss mental health issues and the pervasive stigmas that exist within the Asian community. The collective aspires to make mental health resources accessible to all Asian ...
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Created on 24 March 2021
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Social Impact Fashion Startup Oluna Is Fighting Period Poverty, One Pair Of Pants At A Time
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(Style)
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People who get periods have a lot to deal with. Beyond the physical discomfort and inconvenience of menstruation, the social stigma and inability to access menstrual health products is so profound ...
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Created on 08 January 2021
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Calling All Lady Stoners: On Shame, Gender, and Weed
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(Living)
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... to at least 20 smoking days per month for inclusion in the study sample, but the authors listed stigma around drug use as a core limitation to their results. Years ago,while working in the fields of drug ...
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Created on 18 December 2020
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"On My Block" Star Jessica Marie Garcia Is Helping Make Netflix More Latin
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(TV)
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... “We blanket trauma as strength. We wear it as a badge of honor. That’s why Brown and Black women don’t live longer lives,” she says of her community’s stigma around treating mental illness. “I really hope ...
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Created on 17 December 2020
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How Two Girls In Uganda Are Destigmatizing Periods
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(Feminism)
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Patience and Kashish, two high school girls from Kampala, Uganda, are intent on more than just their studies: the duo created a program to combat the stigma surrounding periods that often causes young ...
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Created on 30 October 2020
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The Feminist Guide to Sex Education You Didn’t Get in School
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(Sex)
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... around sex are becoming a thing of the past as educators and entrepreneurs like Zoë Ligon bring positive and progressive perspectives to the fore. On a mission to replace stigmas and misinformation with ...
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Created on 24 September 2020
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What’s So Funny? Pop Culture Still Doesn’t Know How To Handle Bulimia
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(Entertainment)
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... stigma around bulimia for me. A few times when my sister and I got into arguments, she would throw my eating disorder in my face to embarrass me. I realize now that she wasn’t trying to be cruel, because ...
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Created on 17 September 2020
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This UK Tampax Ad Was Pulled From Ireland Airwaves For Being Too “Vulgar”
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(Feminism)
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It looks like the stigmatization of periods and menstrual products is far from over. Earlier this month, a Tampax ad which aired in the UK and Ireland was pulled from the airwaves for being “vulgar,” ...
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Created on 02 September 2020
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Why We Need Black Women's Breastfeeding Wee
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(Feminism)
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... This practice emerged out of white women’s desires to avoid the cultural stigmatization of breastfeeding, which at the time was considered “uncultured” and lowered one’s stature.
When an enslaved woman ...
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Created on 27 August 2020
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A Tampon Commercial Was Pulled From The Air (For A Ridiculous Reason)
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(Feminism)
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... doesn’t insert their tampons correctly. This can lead to mild discomfort or severe pain. It is important that we teach young people how to wear tampons, especially when we have such a stigma around periods. ...
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Created on 13 August 2020
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This Indian Company Offers Menstrual Leave To Its Employees -- Is It Helping or Hurting?
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(Feminism)
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... upon themselves. This core myth, along with other cultural factors, has contributed to the country’s modern stigmatization of menstruation. In many areas, when women are on their periods, they are considered ...
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Created on 11 August 2020
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Meet Alyy Patel, Founder of Queer South Asian Womxn’s Network (QSAW): BUST Interview
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(Feminism)
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... but we’re out and queer in our social spaces, but that is seen by white lesbians as “you’re not fully out” and we get stigmatized and bullied out of our communities and safe spaces. Institutions reproduce ...
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Created on 31 July 2020
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Here’s Why You’re Seeing So Many Black And White Photos On Instagram
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(Feminism)
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... to show off their support for one another. In a landscape that has traditionally pitted women against each other, this is meant to break the stigma that women cannot be supportive of other women.
Many ...
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Created on 30 July 2020
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Welcome to WitchTok, The Meeting Place For Gen Z and Millennial Magick
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(Entertainment)
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... who aim to foster a community of acceptance, are focusing on is putting an end to the stigmatization of witchcraft. “Why not de-stigmatize it and make it so people can explore that path if they want?” ...
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Created on 24 July 2020
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Menstruators On Twitter Are Super Confused About This Period Product—As They Should Be
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(Living)
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... July 17, 2020
“Your vagina is not a cupboard,” Gunter added. The replies of Gunter’s initial post became flooded with conversations on how the stigma around menstruation and the natural processes of ...
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Created on 22 July 2020
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Week of Women: The Chicks, Tei Shi, En Vogue
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(Entertainment)
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... of mass incarceration (and its relationship with the stigmas against mental illness) in her new book, out July 21.
The Pull of the Stars: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
Donoghue’s new and pretty timely ...
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Created on 16 July 2020
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Why Won't Men Wear Masks
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(Living)
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... indicate otherwise. Capraro and Barcelo wrote: “Men more than women agree that wearing a face-covering is shameful, not cool, a sign of weakness, and a stigma.”
This reluctance was also found in a Gallup/Knight ...
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Created on 23 June 2020
