At Sunday night’s Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actor nominee Tom Hardy was asked by an L.A. Times reporter why he was out in the lobby. “I’m just waiting for my wife (Charlotte Riley) to finish breast pumping in the bathroom,” … Read More
To do truly responsible advocacy work, you have to go global Adding a global sensibility to your activism means reaching outside of your own community to get a broader view of the inequalities at hand. By hearing and acknowledging global … Read More
If you think maneuvering a shopping cart around a packed store is hard, imagine trying to navigate tiny aisles and impatient shoppers while pushing both a cart and a wheelchair. This cumbersome situation is commonly faced by caregivers who are … Read More
This Valentine’s Day, let’s answer the only inquiry that really matters: What’s your true love? It’s a question children’s rights organization Plan International recently asked young girls around the globe to help reframe the conversation around Valentine’s Day. The girls … Read More
If you give a girl the opportunity to code, the tech industry seems to expect her to ask, “Where are the pink accessories?” When it comes to getting girls invested in coding, the tech space has one main tactic — … Read More
Too often, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is seen as a day off — and little else Aside from grade school lessons painting a vague picture of King’s life and activism, the majority of us, especially white people, remain detached … Read More
“You look fat in that.” “Don’t you think that’s a little tight?” “Please don’t wear that.” If you’ve ever been told you shouldn’t wear something because of your body’s shape or size, you’re not aloneBody positive clothing brand SmartGlamour aims … Read More
I never imagined I would get a tattoo during the U.N. Climate Summit in Paris. Yet here it is, newly healed and permanently inked on the inside of my right wrist. The tattoo is three numbers and a symbol: “355<" … Read More
Communities of color continue to fight every day against racism, and heal from the effects it has had on their lives. Great allies can support them, however, and help dismantle the ways in which our institutions and culture are deeply … Read More