I am mentally ill. It took me a very long time to get comfortable saying that, and I still have a minor issue with revealing my mental health conditions to the unacquainted, because of the stigma that mental illness still carries.
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Shelley Zalis has had an eclectic career trajectory, to say the least. She began in the corporate world and transitioned to the tech world, where she created Online Testing Exchange (OTX) — one of the fastest growing market research companies in the world.
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My niece thinks he’s scary. That’s what I keep coming back to, time and again, when I think about what young girls must know in the age of Trumpism. My niece thinks the 45th President of the United States is scary.
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The outlandish and unconstitutional proposals coming out of the White House in the first weeks of the Trump administration have made political activism, now more than ever, an imperative.
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If you’re under the age of 35, you’ve been there. Show an interest in transient, material things — such as fashion or pop culture — and you’re tsked for not focusing on more important issues.
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“Resist” — with “persist” coming a close second, thanks to Mitch McConnell — is the word for 2017.
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With one month of 2017 officially under our belts, many of us are approaching that all-too-familiar point where the promises we made to ourselves for the New Year begin to fall to the wayside. It’s no surprise; New Year’s resolutions come by their bad reputation honestly.
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Many people have trouble sleeping when they’re stressed out or feeling anxious, so it’s not entirely shocking that people who are discriminated against do as well.
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As women marched across Washington, D.C. and the rest of the world on January 21, a resistance to the resistance was brewing on social media.
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On January 21, millions of women turned out to take part in the Women’s March on Washington: a set of worldwide demonstrations against politicians and corporations who want to revoke the rights of women, people of color, LGBTQIA individuals, and people with disabilities.
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Do you know how abortions are performed? How many people have them each year? What happens when you make abortion illegal, or restrict women’s access to abortion providers?
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On the heels of the U.S. presidential election, The Bahamas is preparing for its general election expected to be held in May 2017. The Bahamas has successfully maintained a voter turnout of over 90% for general elections — one of the highest in the world.
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