Historian and activist Susan Stryker traces the evolution of gender as a concept.

An over-investment in people-pleasing can be emotionally costly. Here’s how I’m training myself to be OK with letting people down

“Lookism,” a newish name for a time-dishonored discrimination based on people’s physical appearance, is examined in depth by Stephanie Fairyington in “Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter."

I’m trying to teach my daughter a different way of seeing beauty.

An over-investment in people-pleasing can be emotionally costly. Here’s how I’m training myself to be OK with letting people down

An over-investment in people-pleasing can be emotionally costly. Here’s how I’m training myself to be OK with letting people down

Stephanie Fairyington is a journalist who writes on gender, sexuality, family and parenting. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her perception that she didn’t live up to modern standards of pretty.

Discrimination against the unattractive is widespread—and widely tolerated.

A new book asks what we might gain if we accepted the way we look.

A new book asks what we might gain if we accepted the way we look.

A new book asks what we might gain if we accepted the way we look.

A new book explores the benefits of accepting ugliness instead of trying to change it.

A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from setting up a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate victims of what Trump has called government "weaponization."

I was assessing my face against my mother’s from my earliest memories, or rather the world around me was, and it was consistently communicating—in a quizzical glance or a compliment withheld or a h…

Beyond the beauty binary.

Beyond the beauty binary.

“It’s a very aggressive, angry, queer point of view,” the author says of her new book's title. “I wanted it to have that punch in the gut, like an Elena Ferrange novel.”

Stephanie Fairyington’s new book, Ugly, is a deep dive into why so many of us never feel comfortable in our own skin.