Internalizing superstitious beliefs our formative years can lead us to blame ourselves when things go wrong.

As Dr. Ambedkar said of the ‘Mahatma,” “I know Gandhi better than his disciples… He showed me his fangs,” many Ambedkarites know Savarnas saviors better than most.

Woe Is Me! is a series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore.

Some girl math and some girl thinking to calculate the costs of girlification – with the help of Sara Ahmed’s The Feminist Killjoy Handbook.