An illustration of a silhouette of obese person losing weight with measuring tape

Weight Discrimination Is a Health Problem

The perception of weight discrimination shapes both people’s experience of their own weight status and their disability outcomes.
Bicycling along the Potomac River, 1973

Biking While Black in DC

Because of its political structure, Washington became a test case in federally mandated laws that enabled racially discriminatory policing of public space.
New York City police officer Peter Liang is escorted out of court after he was charged with manslaughter, official misconduct and other offenses on February 11, 2015 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

The “Model Minority” Myth and the Hidden Discrimination of Asian Americans

Identifying Asian Americans as a "model minority" often erases the continued discrimination faced by Asians in America. 
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The Work Life of Transpeople

How transpeople actively do and undo gender in the workplace.
A pregnant woman works on a laptop

A Brief History of Pregnancy Workplace Rights

In a 1986 paper in the Journal of Public Health Policy, traced how pregnancy workplace rights has shifted over the years.