Stigmabase | North America

Why This Latina Created a Photo Project on Mental Illness in Communities of Color  - In 2014, the Ecuadorian-Puerto Rican, who was named one of 15 women of color who rocked 2015, started the People of Color & Mental Illness Photo ...

Are we using poverty as an excuse for school failure?  - Adding union muscle to the argument, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten calls poverty “the elephant in the room” that ...

What Paul Graham Gets Wrong About Inequality and Startups  - To blame the Silicon Valley billionaire factory for widening inequality , ... economic inequality as if those concerned about it want to turn America into ...

Inequality and challenge of inclusive social transformation in Nigeria, by Jaye Gaskia  - Again although globally inequality increased and deepened over the last three decades, nevertheless it is only in Latin America of the six continents ...

40 People Under 40 to Teach Us About Each Other  - That's how I know some LGBTQ creators or a lot of women feel like, but if you are not part of that initial group ... you just have to accept the fact that ...

Black lesbian activist Phyll Opoku-Gyimah turns down MBE in protest at LGBT persecution by ...  - LGBT Community Award, and both appeared in and helped to judge the Independent on Sunday's Rainbow List of influential LGBTQ individuals.

Calgary Outlink hiring as LGBTQ resource works to rebuild  - After six volunteer board members spent weeks working “substantial” hours in an effort to rebuild Calgary's only LGBTQ -specific support service ...

Allowing same-sex marriages is “fundamentally illegitimate”  - Attendees react as Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks at Charlie's Steakhouse at the Carrollton Inn in Carroll, Iowa, ...

LGBT Latino support group formed - A few of the group members have lived in Baltimore for quite some time and have seen programs focused around the Latino LGBTQ community come ...

Op-ed: Not special rights, but equal rights  - We, the LGBTQ citizens of Indiana, should not have to live in fear of losing our jobs, being denied housing or declined service and public ...

Your LGBTQ Members Are Still Hurting, So What Happens Next?  - When I came out, unlike many other LGBTQ Mormons I know, my family was fairly receptive to me and for the most part showed me love. I came out to ...

Alan Cumming: 'I'm tired of talking about my bisexuality'  - Some people have said about the book: 'He doesn't mention that he was first married to a woman and then married to a man'. But that's not what this ...

Bullying in Teen Years Leads to Health Problems in Adulthood  - To determine physical symptoms, participants were asked about the health problems such as headache, dizziness and insomnia they are suffering ...

Bullying and Health Issues Go Hand in Hand for Teens  - Bullying and health issues go hand in hand for teens according to a newly published Canadian study. Featuring in the Journal of Adolescent Health , ...

Healthy ways to approach your child's weight  - One of the best ways to help your child focus on health and not weight is to live that way yourself. Make smart choices for yourself and talk to your child  ...

Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health facility getting a makeover  - The hallways at the Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health headquarters echo with the sounds of children . But the problem is with the hallways.

Americans need tools to overcome poverty, poor health  - Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts, seats 67,000. If we built a place five times bigger, it still wouldn't hold all the Hoosier children living ...

The Chemistry of Seasonal Affective Disorder  - The December days may be unseasonably warm this year, but the nights are as long and dark as ever. And for the millions of Americans with ...

Bipolar disorder linked to inherited differences in sleep patterns  - Despite the large number of individuals with the condition, the exact causes of bipolar, as with many other mental disorders , are not known. Genetics ...

Teen shares inspirational message to raise awareness about anorexia  - She was told not to dance because her heart could stop. But specialists did get her healthy . A month ago she competed in the Miss Taunton pageant.