In the last few years, there’s been a slow, yet strong and steady positive shift in how the topic of mental health is approached. People no longer feel the need to hide their experiences about...
Earlier in September, famed music festival of the marginalized Afropunk set course for an internal meltdown when founding editor-in-chief Lou Constant-Deportes resigned from Afropunk.com, leveling...
Being an inpatient in a hospital can be a lonely and frightening time. You are so ill that you can’t stay at home and you are separated from those who love and care for you – visiting hours are...
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the onset of the 2008 financial crisis, and Trump is taking advantage of it to claim credit for the current state of the U.S. economy — and on the other side...
Out of all the questions on the mind of this great nation, nothing is more pressing than: Are women people? Look, if the question bothers you, you’re probably just looking to get offended on the...
Television standby and Lifetime Channel stalwart Rob Lowe adds a director credit to his expansive resume – and surprise, it’s a remake of The Bad Seed! That sounds like a bit of a random choice,...
People make a lot of assumptions when they see a fat person. It’s somebody lazy and greedy, surely. Somebody with no self-respect. When that fat person is also disabled, the assumptions triple, at...
“Let me guess – you’re Spanish right? Or Greek? You’ve got that kind of Mediterranean look about you.” That’s pretty much the most common guess when people ask me where I’m from, and...
We live in a tough world, where everyone fights different battles to survive, to move on. A lot of us, however, engage in an especially terrifying battle – one tough enough that functioning...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, read E. Young's review of To All the Boys I've Loved Before, a sweet tween film that also advances...
