Sarah Gladstone

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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.”

Why are women so content with being a cold, distant, light-stealing stone?

Fetishizing women of color isn't a compliment. It's just another form of objectification.

Sherlock fans, come on get happy!

Beneath the ear-worming melodies and undeniable pop-froth of the '90s was a latent feminist agenda that's still informing the woman I am today.

Hey GOP, you can't capture millennial votes with silly stereotypes. You'll have to be more creative than that.

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

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” -Maya Angelou

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?