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Income inequality and the wage gape has a personal cost that can be oft overlooked. May Koiner, a freelance journalist, writes about the lack of stable wages in the writing industry, the effect it has on her mental health and relationship with her software testing boyfriend.
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For as long as I have been alive, I have been aware that my body is more important to most people than my mind.
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Another year of abuse of power and atrocities - of the value of marginalized people shown to be disposable. Of agendas made of lies told by a tiny group of men deciding the outcome high above our heads.
Read More"There are no gender or weight classes. Everyone is equal.” This, more than anything I had ever heard about chivalry or courtly romance, sounds like a dream made real. In my armor, I’m not an awkward collection of ugly parts, unable to fit in anywhere. I am an armored combatant.
Read MoreThere were a lot of things I didn’t tell my parents when I was growing up, and there were a lot of things they never told me in return.
Read MoreDespite any pretension to legitimate moral moorings, the irrational and violent demand for subservience is the only consistent element of patriarchy.
Read MoreThe machinations of oppression operated on such a small scale in the psych ward that their latent manifestations were immediate and apparent. There was no place to hide from the vagaries of that tiny world.
Read MoreI didn’t cry during her speech. I cried when she exhaled.
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