Stigmabase | North America

Trump Win Resets Culture War Debate on Abortion, LGBTQ Rights - Advocates of LGBTQ rights and abortion rights now fear setbacks instead of further gains. But the outcome emboldened the anti-abortion movement ...

Utah LGBTQ community seeks to unify in wake of Trump's election - Combined, the election results and the anniversary of the church's policy shift have elevated the anxiety among LGBTQ Utahns and their allies, many ...

The Incarcerated LGBTQ People Asserting Their Humanity Through Art - They identify across the LGBTQ spectrum and—through imaginative self-portraiture, detailed studies of Rihanna or Michael Jackson's face, and ...

Transgender rights conference builds union- LGBTQ solidarity - While some unions have had a mixed approach to LGBTQ rights, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 655 has been on the cutting ...

Parents of transgender children speak out as election results put LGBTQ advocates on defense - They are a few of more than a dozen parents who have joined with the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ -rights organization, ...

Transgender Supermodel Lauren Foster Fights for LGBTQ Rights in Miami - Nearly 30 years later, Lauren Foster now resides in Miami, where she has become one of the city's loudest advocates for the LGBTQ community.

You Betrayed Our Community's Most Vulnerable - One of many emotions that LGBTQ people are navigating and grappling with is a very distinct and cutting sense of betrayal. Despite repeated attempts ...

Link between phone use, mental health in teens - New research shows a link between your teen's phone use and her mental health . Plus, a traditional form of discipline is on the rise. Danielle ...

Teen Depression On The Rise, Especially Among Girls - and his co-authors said that the study looked at analyzed data from national surveys on drug use and health from 2005 to 2014 for teens aged 12 to ...

Teen depression on the rise in US - One of the drivers may be related to increased cellphone use among teens ... The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health defines major depressive ...

How mental health should be taught in Canadian schools - I want teachers to know we can all understand and appreciate kids who have emerging mental health concerns. It doesn't take a PhD for anyone to ...

Smoking in pregnancy, kids skipping breakfast could lead to child obesity - 

Did you know your child may be losing sleep because of their smartphone? - Researchers also found that 13 percent of kids who use a phone before bed had excessive daytime sleepiness, compared to five percent who, just ...

Harvard Receives Grant to Study Racial and Economic Inequality , Influence Public Policy - As recent news suggests, racial and economic inequality continues to be a poignant reality in America today. In response, the Hutchins Center's study ...

First Brexit, now Trump - it's the economy, stupid! - The NAB team said the number of Americans with real middle-class ... Inequalities in the U.S. economy are the worst in almost a century, since just ...

This Gorgeous Short Film Takes Us to the Heart of the Dakota Access Pipeline Standoff - his recent mini-doc series on inequality in the United States: America Divided, which aired on EPIX in October and November, took us to corners of a ...