Everyday Feminism

We’re all raised in a society that’s built on ableist values that are also linked to white supremacy, capitalism, and colonization, which is why the people we love sometimes have oppressive v...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/12/3-ways-to-talk-to-your-friends-family-about-their-ableist-views/

The US owes its very existence to the Black women whose unpaid labor built this nation and whose political activism has rescued it from fascism repeatedly.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/12/how-to-compensate-black-women-and-femmes-on-social-media-for-their-emotional-labor/

What I’m suggesting is restructuring the very core of what education aims to give its students — not just a diploma, but a real chance at navigating multiple dimensions of life and being succ...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/12/6-ways-u-s-education-isnt-making-the-cut-how-we-can-fix-them/

So if you’re not going to therapy or living life to become happy, what’s the point? I started asking the same thing. And what I learned along the way kind of blew my mind wide open.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/11/if-your-goal-in-therapy-is-to-be-happy-you-might-want-to-rethink-that-heres-why/

I’ve learned there is no shortage of stylistic experimentation that’s possible if we allow ourselves to exist outside of the gendered boxes that constrain how we express ourselves.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/11/4-ways-ive-managed-to-affirm-my-gender-through-fashion/

Originally published on Let’s Queer Things Up! and cross-posted here with his permission. I won’t beat around the bush: Mental illness has pushed me to the edge many, many times. There were...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/11/5-ways-your-critiques-of-psychiatry-might-be-ableist/

This article was originally published in RESIST, a publication that is no longer in print, and cross-posted here. (Content warning: animal exploitation; examples of sexism, ableism; descriptions ...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/11/4-ways-the-animal-rights-movement-uses-human-bodies-to-sell-animal-rights/

On January 21, 2017, millions of people around the world participated in The Women’s March. A Facebook event that quickly went viral, the march was a powerful display of resistance and solidari...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/10/6-tips-for-making-your-conversations-about-reproductive-rights-more-trans-inclusive/

I’ve written several times about various aspects of fat antagonism. But because the body positivity, Health at Every Size, and fat acceptance movements trend very white, there is little discuss...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/10/meat-on-dem-bones-confronting-fat-antagonism-and-diet-culture-in-black-beauty-politics/

I can’t talk about my family tree without mentioning how many shiny badges are attached to the branches. Since before I can remember, I have been referred to as “the cop’s daughter,” and ...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/10/my-parents-are-police-officers-here-are-5-reasons-i-support-the-blacklivesmatter-movement-anyway/