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The US owes its very existence to the Black women whose unpaid labor built this nation and whose political activism has rescued it from fascism repeatedly.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/12/how-to-compensate-black-women-and-femmes-on-social-media-for-their-emotional-labor/

I’ve learned there is no shortage of stylistic experimentation that’s possible if we allow ourselves to exist outside of the gendered boxes that constrain how we express ourselves.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/11/4-ways-ive-managed-to-affirm-my-gender-through-fashion/

Though we’ve seen a push in the industry to diversify DJ lineups in the last few years, historically women and marginalized communities have a harder time making headway in the field.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/06/women-djs-discrimination/

We can’t miss a day, we can’t make mistakes, and we absolutely cannot speak up. We’re the first and because of that, there many ways we are silenced.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/04/first-black-woman-sucks/

It’s not enough for employers to process smooth transitions for their employees, they must adjust their employee evaluation systems to account for systemic sexism or risk losing their trans emp...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/02/trans-women-losing-jobs/

When I began my own transition, of course, homelessness lingered as a fear in the back of my mind. I’d watched too many trans women be run out of their jobs under suspicious circumstances and s...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/01/trans-people-out-of-poverty/

"When we teach women to feel ashamed of their bodies, we are also taking away their capacity to experience sexual pleasure…their ability to exercise sexual freedom.”

https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/11/5-myths-women-have-been-sold/

I pray that queer and trans survivors aren’t left behind — our voices deserve to be front and center in the movement as much any other survivor.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/11/lets-center-queer-trans-survivors/

Non-binary people should never have to prove or alter ourselves to be worthy of care, compassion and the right to make our own decisions about our bodies.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/11/doctor-gender-non-binary-person/

Hearing the phrase “Asian sadness” made me feel like my depression linked to my Asian American identity isn’t just something I made up.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/11/lets-talk-asian-sadness/