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NYT Bestselling Author Rachel Howzell Hall Returns With A New Edge-Of-Your-Seat Summer Thriller

NYT Bestselling Author Rachel Howzell Hall Returns With A New Edge-Of-Your-Seat Summer Thriller

We love a good summer thriller and the latest offering from New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Howzell Hall (‘These Toxic Things’, ‘And Now She’s Gone’, and ‘They All Fall Down’) does […]

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Learning To Trust Your Body So That You Can Finally Break Free From Calorie Counting, Food Rules & Fad Diets

Learning To Trust Your Body So That You Can Finally Break Free From Calorie Counting, Food Rules & Fad Diets

By Lizzy Cangro: International Expert Nutritionist, Wellness Coach and Author  Can I share a secret with you? Lean in closer, sister, because this is HUGE… Are you ready? The diet […]

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How Wanting To Be Mozart When I Was Three Made Me A Feminist

How Wanting To Be Mozart When I Was Three Made Me A Feminist

By Susanne Dunlap My pronouns are she/her/hers. I’ve always been comfortable with my birth gender, in spite of having come of age in the sixties and seventies when feminism was […]

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Spanx founder Sara Blakely with Mika Brzezinski, Co-host, Morning Joe, MSNBC at the Fortune The Most Powerful Women event, October 2013 in Washington D.C. Image by Stuart Isett.

How Billionaire Spanx Founder Sara Blakely Achieved Success With These Four Underrated Traits

By Jennifer O’Callaghan In 2000, Sara Blakely was invited to a cocktail party. Shortly after her arrival, two salesmen recognized her from across the room as the face of Spanx, her […]

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Compelling Memoir Documents Author’s Escape From Generational Trauma Into A Life Of Labor Activism

Compelling Memoir Documents Author’s Escape From Generational Trauma Into A Life Of Labor Activism

The following is an excerpt from Yvonne Martinez’s forthcoming book ‘Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman’ (October 18, She Writes Press). At eighteen, Yvonne […]

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Exploring The “Tomboy” Archetype & Gender Nonconforming Characters In Literary

Exploring The “Tomboy” Archetype & Gender Nonconforming Characters In Literary

By Shelley Blanton-Stroud, author of ‘TomBoy: A Jane Benjamin Novel’ Author Lisa Selin Davis’s school-age daughter cuts her hair short, wears gym shorts and sweats, and, for dress-up, dons button-down […]

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It’s Our Time To Dismantle Harmful Stereotypes About Asian Women

It’s Our Time To Dismantle Harmful Stereotypes About Asian Women

By Sheena Yap Chan For centuries, Asian women have been seen as quiet, submissive and obedient. These stereotypes have hurt us as a whole because we end up being treated as […]

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I Used To Hide My Abortions – Not Anymore

I Used To Hide My Abortions – Not Anymore

By Isidra Mencos The United States Supreme Court has overturned Roe Vs Wade, which could lead to complete bans or severe restrictions on abortions on many states. The fact that […]

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My Father’s Cancer Diagnosis Shook My World & Inspired Me To Start A Pediatric Cancer Book Drive

Emily Bhatnagar, 18, is one of today’s leading youth philanthropists in the United States. After Bhatnagar witnessed her father (whom she calls her “best friend”) nearly lose his battle with […]

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How My Journey With Chronic Illness Led Me To A Place Of Healing Through Spirituality & Surrender

How My Journey With Chronic Illness Led Me To A Place Of Healing Through Spirituality & Surrender

By Nidhi Agrawal “Surrender is an incredibly difficult topic in light of chronic illness, because loss is often continued and sustained.” ― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in […]

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The Attack On Abortion & Repro Rights Will Not Stop With Roe v Wade – Birth Control Is Also The Target

The Attack On Abortion & Repro Rights Will Not Stop With Roe v Wade – Birth Control Is Also The Target

By Ames Sheldon On Tuesday May 3, the Supreme Court confirmed that a leaked draft ruling provided to Politico to overthrow the landmark decision on Roe v. Wade, which ensured […]

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7 UK Universities With An LGBTQIA+ Friendly Approach

7 UK Universities With An LGBTQIA+ Friendly Approach

By Madeline Miller In the United Kingdom, people in the LGBTQ+ community are celebrating great achievements like an LGBTQ+ museum. Since May 2022, the museum has become a staple for […]

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How Trauma-Informed Policing Could’ve Helped Save Gabby Petito, And So Many Others

How Trauma-Informed Policing Could’ve Helped Save Gabby Petito, And So Many Others

By Heather Kent, Registered Psychotherapist and Trauma Recovery Specialist Due to a number of factors common to most of North America – such as cuts to long-term psychiatric beds, improvements […]

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How “My Unorthodox Life” Highlights The Dangers Of Projections On Both Sides Of The Fence. 

How “My Unorthodox Life” Highlights The Dangers Of Projections On Both Sides Of The Fence. 

By Dr. Leah Katz, Ph.D. It was Halloween night 2019. I was at my improv class (which for some reason was not cancelled despite it being Halloween). Many people came […]

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With The Recent Rise In Sexual Crimes In India, I Knew It Was Time To Share My Story

With The Recent Rise In Sexual Crimes In India, I Knew It Was Time To Share My Story

By Pooja Kannan *TW: mention of rape, sexual assault* Despite seeing so much progress, the rise in women’s rights movements, and feminist voices championing progress for women, sexual crimes are […]