“Somebody Was Doing the Lion King Thing…”
Leaving you this week with the above BBC video of Things Not to Say to People with Dwarfism. With candid personal stories ranging from awkward jokes to physical abuse and assault, discretion is...
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Can A Princess Ever Set Us Free?
(Image by Andriy Baranskyy under CC 2.0 via) Human rights activist and fashion critic Sinéad Burke is on the cover of Vogue for its September issue, along with 14 other women picked by...
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Because We Gotta Keep Telling the True Stories in Dwarf History
(Public Domain Image used via) Leaving you this week with a must-read feature in the New Zealand Herald: “The Civil War Solider with Dwarfism Who Was Gifted to the Queen.” Following the...
View ArticleQuarantined? Use Your Screentime to Learn about a Health Revolution
Blogging for the first time in half a year has me starting up again in a brave new world. COVID-19 has brought most of us indoors and gone on to show that a worldwide, nearly universal phenomenon...
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This Universal Pandemic Proves Our Diversity
(Image by Hans-Jörg Aleff used under CC 2.0 via) Most of the world has been asked—if not ordered—to stay at home and only socialize online. Almost immediately the divisiveness inherent to social...
View ArticleHow Can We Decide What Makes A Female?
This week the world lost one of the greatest warriors against discrimination on the basis of sex and gender – the very same week that the World Athletics track and field authority ruled that South...
View ArticleHere’s Hoping You’ll Be Hearing about Ali Stroker From More Than Just Me
Perhaps the worst thing about the arts—at the least the performing arts—is how they’ve ended up as the most powerful perpetuator of lookism around the world. From colorism to ableism to fat-shaming,...
View ArticleThis Blog Is 10 Years Old & Beauty Has Become So Much More Beautiful
Welcome to sunny side! was one of the messages I received last month on my 40th birthday. I have indeed felt a glow about the whole thing. With 40 years under my belt, I’ve decided—and tell everyone I...
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Do We Need Statues of Real People?
Happy May 1st! The idea of “the people” and “the public square” and “equality-means-everybody” has me thinking about statues. And about historical figures and artists and everyone whose work had an...
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The U.S. Supreme Court Just Knocked Down A Cornerstone of Human Rights to the...
Hours before the German Bundestag removed a Nazi law restricting public information about abortion services, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to medical freedom, opening the...
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