Sarah Gladstone

As Americans we have fallen prey to a particular "look" —namely white and thin—and suffer from an inability to shatter it. The result? A backhanded compliment of the hybrid variety: “You’re pretty . . . for a black girl.”

No one wants to have to say, “Shalom! I’m a child of Israel, and you are . . . ?”

The internet is weird and gross and hilarious and helpful.

News flash from France: Exercise is good for the boobs!

I didn’t realize I could like girls and boys. I didn’t have to choose, and one didn’t cancel out the other. Around the same time I attended my first GSA meeting, I did wonder, maybe I’m not straight? Maybe I’m gay?

The ice cream truck may be tainted forever.

A look into Aubrey Plaza's Latina pride.

You say you want a revolution? We're having a nineties reboot . . . with the spirit of the sixties seeping in.

A proposed California bill is bringing new attention to the fate of performance orcas at SeaWorld

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