Being an ally is an open-ended responsibility. This means learning how to continue our allyship while taking care of ourselves and our loved ones throughout various life circumstances (such as global pandemics). Initially, this post was going to be solely about white allyship. But Pride Month just ended, and I believe strongly in intersectional feminism. We are not going to make the progress we really need to make if we speak up about one type of injustice while ignoring the rest. And many of u

The 2020 Census, the country’s 10-year count of all residents, began on March 12. Within its questions, the Census offers just two options related to gender, male or female, making it impossible for individuals who don’t identify with either to answer truthfully.

N.K. Jemisin wants to be a “storyteller of a writer.” It’s an ambition she claims not to have mastered, but many who have lost themselves in Jemisin’s tales of captive gods and stone eaters are sure to disagree.

In this exclusive extended interview with National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Jacqueline Woodson, the Newberry Honored author talks character building, diversity movements, and the real-world importance of books for kids and teens.

Being diagnosed her own invisible condition helped Lindsday Turpen better advocate for her son, Riley, while also making her better at advocating for herself.

Want to run an inclusive business? According to Zipporah Jarmon, founder of Pyramid Seven that makes boxer briefs for people with periods, you need to be prepared to include those you're not even thinking of yet. Folks with needs that will somehow fit into your company's sphere of services or products. You can be proactive about finding them, open and ready to include them.

Personal essay about trying out pony play: a fetish role play involving pretending to be a pony

A 2014 study by the Human Rights Campaign found that 53 percent of LGBT individuals remain closeted at work. According to Audrey Gallien, Director of Marketing for Catalyst, a workplace inclusion advocacy organization, even when businesses attempt to provide an inclusive environment, individuals “still must face the inter-personal risk of ‘bringing their full self’ to work”—in other words, they risk their relationship with their manager, team members, or clients changing for the worse. Accordin

Body positivity advocate and yoga teacher Jessamyn Stanley believes that yoga is for everyone. Her new book, Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get on the Mat, Love Your Body, is a mix of memoir and a guide to inclusive yoga.

Do you view the world through a spiritual lens? Are you fascinated by the intersection of religion and politics? Religious and spiritual writing runs a wide gamut from hard news reporting to lifestyle pieces for particular faith-based demographics.

The moment I disrobe and step up naked on a platform where anywhere from two to a dozen pairs of eyes are staring at me has never bothered me. I don’t feel ashamed or embarrassed. Before I started figure modeling, I’d enjoyed other public nudity experiences which led me to believe I’d be a good candidate for the gig. There were other reasons I started modeling. As a broke graduate student, it is a way of supporting the arts without the ability to buy much. It’s also physically challenging, and

More than half of men fantasize about being dominated by a woman. That's not an exaggeration or a slogan of the feminist movement—it's a fact. And like savvy entrepreneurs, many women are capitalizing on the market demand and going pro, making a living off of spanking, tying up, and otherwise controlling the men who find it erotic.

The times when I most yearned for the title of stepmom were when it mattered the least: speaking to coworkers or other women — usually much older than me — about their teenage daughters. When one mom lamented her daughter's growing reclusiveness, I felt a smug sense of pride about the chatty, unguarded girl in my life. Another showed me her daughter's prom pictures, and I reciprocated by bringing up images of Miranda in her golden gown on Facebook. But when I talked about Miranda, I'd have to sa

How husband and wife duo Greg Newkirk and Dana Matthews get $6,000 a month from 175 supporters via Patreon for their project, The Traveling Museum of the Paranormal and the Occult.

Jarell Wilson moved to Chicago in 2016. A recent seminary graduate, Wilson relocated to serve with a local congregation and pursue ordination in the United Methodist Church. But he soon discovered he missed reading Scripture in Hebrew. When Rabbi Craig Marantz, Wilson's friend and head rabbi at Emanuel Congregation in Edgewater, invited Wilson to a reading group, Wilson jumped at the chance. He began coming to the synagogue to read the Torah, and soon, Marantz and Wilson were part of each other'

The need for safe spaces should not be limited to universities. If any place is going to offer psychological protection, shouldn’t it be the church?

“Primary sources tell the story both explicitly and implicitly,” Freeman says. “They’ll tell you all the facts sometimes, then they’ll tell you the backstories and will tell you how people interacted with the backstory … and [they] show hidden aspects of history.”