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We’re all raised in a society that’s built on ableist values that are also linked to white supremacy, capitalism, and colonization, which is why the people we love sometimes have oppressive v...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/12/3-ways-to-talk-to-your-friends-family-about-their-ableist-views/

So if you’re not going to therapy or living life to become happy, what’s the point? I started asking the same thing. And what I learned along the way kind of blew my mind wide open.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/11/if-your-goal-in-therapy-is-to-be-happy-you-might-want-to-rethink-that-heres-why/

Originally published on Let’s Queer Things Up! and cross-posted here with his permission. I won’t beat around the bush: Mental illness has pushed me to the edge many, many times. There were...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/11/5-ways-your-critiques-of-psychiatry-might-be-ableist/

I’ve written several times about various aspects of fat antagonism. But because the body positivity, Health at Every Size, and fat acceptance movements trend very white, there is little discuss...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/10/meat-on-dem-bones-confronting-fat-antagonism-and-diet-culture-in-black-beauty-politics/

There’s a myth is that if you have enough women and femmes in your organization, your organization is automatically not sexist or femmephobic. This is absolutely untrue, especially if the only ...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/10/make-your-workplace-more-femme-friendly/

In my experience, one of the most frustrating challenges about living with a mental illness is that the seemingly small things in life are often the most difficult. Take a first date, for example...

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/08/dating-mentally-ill-women/

Learning to use spirituality as a form of healing and resistance is vital to both ourselves and our given communities.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/06/spiritual-practice-resist/

Cure-focused narratives promote the harmful idea that disabled people’s bodies and lives are less valuable because of their identity.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/05/a-cure-for-ableism/

The choices that are made when organizing an event will determine who is able to be there and who isn’t. If you want a truly inclusive event you need to cast the widest net of inclusivity.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2018/04/event-inaccessibility/

The reality is that survivors are often faced with individual opposition, disbelief and institutional hurdles when they come out.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/12/how-to-support-survivors/