Once upon a time, almost every offering from Disney kicked off with a “once upon a time” kind of theme. After all, Disney was a fairly prudish, conservative corporation tasked with entertaining America’s children while being centered around family values. You know, like orphaning their main characters by killing off their moms.
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Dating happy people sounds a lot more appealing than dating unhappy people, in general, but according to a study published by the American Psychological Association, dating happy people can actually improve your health.
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As a person who possesses the conflicting traits of being both socially anxious and short-tempered, I worry that some small slip-up will cost me my say in the immediate future of our country.
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succubus in my pocket is a book of experimental poetry by the late, great trans poet kari edwards (1954-2006). In the foreword, edwards — she preferred her name, as well as the book’s title, in lower case — is described as one of transgender literature’s “driving forces and homing beacons.”
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Calling all hopeless romantics. Turns out you’re not even a little bit alone. Despite the evidence against it, a majority of single people still believe that marriage can last forever.
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Melissa Rosenberg, executive producer of Netflix Original Series Jessica Jones, has revealed that season 2 of the critically-acclaimed show would be directed exclusively by women directors. While the production team had already made a commitment to hiring women directors for the season, they decided to double down on that commitment and go the full nine yards, Rosenberg told attendees at the Transforming Hollywood 7: Diversifying Entertainment conference held in Los Angeles last Friday.
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The air is getting crisp, everything tastes like apples and pumpkin spice, and Halloween is right around the corner, which means everyone is preoccupied with picking out the perfect costume.
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While the United States is frantically trying to wake itself up from the nightmare that is the 2016 election cycle, its European neighbors have proven, once again, that they’re woke and willing to tackle reality head-on.
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It’s not often that rapists get brought before the court of law to face justice for their crimes. According to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN), 97 out of every 100 rapists will never even spend a single day in jail.
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Across the U.S., hundreds of thousands of women and girls face a potentially endless shortage of life-saving medication. You likely haven’t heard about the crisis, however, because the injectable estrogen shortage disproportionately impacts trans women.
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Just when you think you can start giving someone the benefit of the doubt again, they turn around and show you their true colors. We should have seen it coming.
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More young women in the United States are becoming receptive to using long-acting reversible contraception (LARCs) to meet their birth control needs, according to a story covered by NPR earlier this month.
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