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Love is the Cure: the new faces of BPD

By Rachel Haywire | Published: March 5, 2010
Hello everyone, Recently I was asked to do a PSA for “Love is the Cure” which is an organization dedicated to giving Borderline Personality Disorder a more positive name. I think that BPD has been stigmatized and that there is a lot of misinformation out there. Many people with BPD have been through repetitive trauma and [...]
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Body image as a feminist and my current departure from the internet

By Rachel Haywire | Published: December 27, 2009
It has recently been called to my attention that my new pictures “go against everything that I stand for” and that I am now using sex appeal to sell my records. Are these people serious? My records don’t sell whether I am using “sex appeal” or not. It doesn’t matter what I look like. People [...]
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Rivetheads Against Nazi Thugs (RANT)

By Rachel Haywire | Published: November 19, 2009
RANT is a new political movement inspired by the SHARP movement. The SHARP movement was started when a group of neo-nazi’s were infiltrating the punk/oi scene with fascist politics. The SHARP’s decided they weren’t going to tolerate these white power bands having control of their subculture. They decided to create social change by any means [...]
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