By: Colette Shade, LMSW These days, body positivity is ubiquitous. Bodies that are fat and thin, young and old, multiracial, trans and gender nonconforming can be seen everywhere from popular social media accounts to magazine covers to advertisements for Dove body wash and Hanes underwear. The “Dove Real Beauty Pledge” tells customers that “beauty is…
By: Colette Shade, LMSW After last August’s evacuation from Afghanistan, many military veterans were confronted with a harsh, sudden end to the longest war in American history. Gone was the bluster and chest-thumping confidence of early-2000s America. Both the recently deployed and those who have been stateside for years were left to face their own…
By: Colette Shade, LMSW With one of the top conversations of 2021 being whether or not to get vaccinated (despite overwhelming scientific evidence toward the former), for many, Nicki Minaj’s recent controversy around her own skepticism was just another voice in that conversation. Like many celebrity pseudo-science claims, it’s expected that we take it in…