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.”

Dear BFFLs:

A week of Instagram-able moments centers around the booming network of the millennial population.

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?

Shutting the door on kids who don't fall within the confines of "the norm" is not a viable option.

All people may be created equal, but our earwax is not.

The 21st century is a full blown teenager now.

New moms do their best to bring their babies up in a care-free bubble that blissfully floats above the sick, sad world the rest of us live in.

Lupita Nyong'o is “challenging” traditional ideas of beauty—but it's not because she's brown.

It’s that lovely spring floral and festival season and we are officially in a perfect Goldie Locks type weather situation: not too hot, not too cold, but just the right climate for biking. So which towns have the best bikeability?