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Chris Brown Doesn’t Deserve Your Money Or Your Forgiveness

By Monica Busch If you haven’t heard, R&B singer Chris Brown is planning to release a documentary chronicling his life, rise to fame, and subsequent infamy following his 2009 assault on then-girlfriend and Grammy award-winning singer Rihanna. The documentary, dubbed Welcome to My Life, does not have a release date, but Brown Tweeted the trailer earlier Read more

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Anti-Trans ‘Feminists’ Are More Dangerous Than Religious Zealots

“Why does it matter, saying ‘women’ instead of ‘people’ when we talk about abortion or contraception or pregnancy? It matters for the same reason we have the word ‘feminist’ at all — because it picks out the fact that women are treated as an inferior caste, whose bodies don’t fully belong to them.” Read more

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7 Women On The Intersection Of Hair And Queer Identity

Teenagedom is largely a parade of awkwardness, self-doubt, and one’s body rebelling against its owner. For young queer girls, this time can be especially unwieldy, marked not only by burgeoning sexuality, but by a slew of quickly shifting hairstyles that let the world know they’re “not like other girls.” Read more

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See Me: Fighting The Invisibility Of Mental Illness

By Danielle Vintschger Every day that I’m on the outside of a psych ward, I take up a little more space in the world. CN: discussion of self-harm I was eight years old, sitting in the garden next to our driveway when I first became invisible. My body faded away, leaving only a tiny hand Read more