Featured photo image credit: Flickr user Tirzah via Creative Commons My dad and I have this running joke. He makes fun of me for being just like him: cynical, lazy, opinionated, stubborn; then he tells me to learn from his mistakes and to never end up like him. I promptly retort with something along the...
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7 Body Positive Tips Never Going out of Style!
The following is a brief compendium of Size Acceptance advice I have picked-up along the way. There are so many beautiful humyns doing this work; many starting well before me, who truly paved the way for my own voice to feel safe enough to come forth – I am grateful for their bold activism in...
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What It Means To Be Tired
Driving home from therapy, I blasted Taylor Swift’s latest album and tried to enjoy the pretty weather. In fact, the weather was disturbingly pretty this Monday. My dad quipped that we live in the only US state that pooh-poohs sunshine and begs for stormy skies. Nevada isn’t doing so hot either–rather, it’s also doing too...
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Queer News Roundup
Apparently there was a big football game this weekend called The Super Bowl. Never heard of it, but I guess it’s pretty popular. Everyone’s favorite love-to-hate-her pop star Katy Perry performed, including her early hit “I Kissed a Girl.” I hate that song, I find it offensive, fetishizing and far too focused on the male...
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#CelebrateYourBody: Honoring the Beauty of all Bodies
I barely know where to begin highlighting the beautifully uplifting experience that was this year’s #CelebrateYourBody Fashion Show Event held at SOMArts in San Francisco and hosted by Kearny Street Workshop, in partnership with ACMIST. To say that I am still riding the high of this extravanganza would be an understatement, as would saying that...
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Six women who influenced Martin Luther King Jr.
Today marks the official holiday of Martin Luther King Jr., honoring the life and legacy of the civil rights leader who sacrificed his life to end discrimination in America . King was not only influential in his time, but an influential leader for generations to come, who carry on King’s vision of ending discrimination through non...
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The Death of America’s Favorite Dad, Bill Cosby Character Heathcliff Huxtable
Update, February 17, 2017: Bill Cosby won a court victory Thursday when a U.S. District Judge threw out a defamation case one of his accusers filed against him. In the suit, Katherine McKee claimed that Cosby had defamed her by calling her a liar and an extortionist. McKee also claims Cosby sexually assaulted her in the 1970s....
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What Are You?: A Portrait of Multiracism
So, you may have noticed the blogosphere exploding this last week over recent Bay area transplant and early 2000’s teen idol Raven Symone’s comments on Oprah’s OWN Network Where Are They Now special. If you haven’t seen the video, take a look: All this talk of labels really got me thinking about some of things...