Jessamyn Stanley has a down-to-earth, practical and body-positive approach to yoga that makes the practice accessible to folks who’ve felt alienated by yoga classes. We’ve all been there: you walk into a new yoga class and you feel like you’re an alien among all those perfectly toned, willowy, limber yoginis. You’re sure that they’re staring...
Author: Beth Winegarner (Beth Winegarner)
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Before You Share Info About ICE Raids on Social Media, Read This
Stop copying and pasting unverified reports about ICE raids. You may mean well, but you’re hurting immigrant communities. Do this instead. If you’ve spent any time on Facebook lately, you’ve probably seen people sharing information about places where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have been conducting raids or checkpoints. While the sentiment behind this...
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Loved “Hidden Figures?” Here Are 12 More Movies and TV Shows With Women in STEM
It’s rare for movies or TV shows to feature women in STEM, but if you saw Hidden Figures and are craving more, we’ve got you covered. Warning! This article contains spoilers for several films and TV shows! For years, Hollywood executives have been saying that audiences won’t pay to see movies starring women, despite ample...
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What Donald Trump’s Presidency Means for Climate Change and Environmental Justice
Two days after Donald Trump was elected to the American Presidency, the Washington Post ran an article reporting, “North America is awash in warmth and there are no immediate signs of significant winterlike weather on the horizon.” It was the third-warmest October on record, and that warmth continued into November. The timing didn’t feel like a coincidence. Trump’s election...
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Why I’m Voting for Michelle Obama
When First Lady Michelle Obama took the stage in New Hampshire this month to rally for Hillary Clinton — and responded with authentic anger and horror to Donald Trump’s remarks about groping women — I was at first disappointed that Trump had once again managed to make the presidential campaign all about himself. But as...
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Why Trump’s “Pussy” Tape is a Gut Punch
When Donald Trump’s “grab them by the pussy” remarks were made public on Friday, it shocked the nation. But for women, femmes and girls who’ve been grabbed and groped at one time or another — that’s most of them, by the way — it was a gut punch. When we heard him say it, we could feel...
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The Spire: Not Quite Zen in Your Pocket
Throughout my life, I haven’t been very good at identifying how I’m feeling in a given moment, unless that feeling is “nervous.” I’ll think I’m doing just fine, and then, seemingly out of nowhere, I’m irritated or upset. So when I heard about the mood-sensing device Spire — which emerged with an iPhone-compatible version last...
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As a Woman, I, and My Reproductive Rights, Can’t Afford Not to Vote for Clinton
I was born in the early 1970s and have never known a United States without legal abortion. I’ve been lucky to have easy access to birth control and health services like Planned Parenthood. Over the past several years, it’s been scary to watch citizens and politicians find ways to erode women’s reproductive rights — and...
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Trump’s Unpunished Clinton Death Threats are Familiar Ground for Women
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a thin-skinned, narcissistic misogynist makes death threats against a woman he doesn’t like. Even though death threats are illegal, law enforcement officials shrug like there’s nothing anyone can do about it. That’s just what happened yesterday when Donald Trump spoke about the next president’s Supreme Court picks at a rally...
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Jessamyn Stanley is Here to Tell You to Ignore the Haters: Yoga is for Every Kind of Body
Jessamyn Stanley has been an inspiration to curvy yoga practitioners and yoginis of color since she launched her Instagram account years ago to connect with others who love yoga. She’s the perfect antidote to all those snobby, seemingly perfect, LuluLemon-clad yoga-doers. You know the type. These days, she’s a teacher, traveling the country to lead...