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“Right now so much of the conversation on privilege is around white privilege, or not having white privilege. I think privilege shows up in a lot of different ways.”
Crystal B. Shepeard interviews Luna Is America about her new project, Mapping Privilege.
"Texas is moving full speed ahead with a new rule requiring aborted fetuses to be buried or cremated, aimed at 'giving voice to the unborn.'
In an effort to comply with that order more closely than state officials ever imagined, a woman named Jex Blackmore is urging Americans to mail their sperm-soaked rags, socks, and condoms to Governor Greg Abbott’s office."
by Kali Holloway, via AlterNet
"I know enough to know that good doesn’t always win. Good didn’t win during the 2016 Presidential Election. Good had its ass thoroughly beat.
But do we care to acknowledge that?"
a roundtable on the impact of the president-elect's abusive nature, featuring Brittany Kerfoot, Clarkisha Kent, & Laura M Martin
"Most rides make getting fingered impossible due to the nature of the seating arrangement. For example, Space Mountain seats only one per row, making it impossible unless, of course, you service yourself. I do not recommend doing this, considering the unexpected and dramatic drops and turns that Space Mountain is famous for."
by Liz Magee
"I remember wondering if nuns were all born good, or if goodness was something that they had learned. As a kid, I was often preoccupied by my own inability to be good; what frustrated me the most was that in spite of my best efforts, I still frequently slipped up and got in trouble. The kids who were well-behaved made it look effortless.
I, on the other hand, felt that I had a natural inclination toward badness."
by Anne Thériault
"There are no pictures in my mind—no colors, no sounds, no smells, no textures, no flavors. It wasn’t until I was 14 that I realized this made me different.
I did not mention it to a living soul for over a decade."
by E.P.F. Wohlfart
"Men cry a lot in 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.' Men, I daresay, cry more than women. That’s surprising—and refreshing."
by Kaye Toal
"I went from 3,500 followers to 90,000 overnight. I think these things simply needed to be said, and I absolutely intend to use this platform to continue fighting for good." –Danielle Muscato
It's not easy going viral. Minda Honey's new series, "AS SEEN ON SOCIAL MEDIA," gives you an inside look at the experience.
First up, Danielle Muscato, who unleashed a very popular tweet storm on Donald J. Trump this weekend, after he threw an early morning tantrum about how Alec Baldwin portrayed him on Saturday Night Live.
"Tabloid magazines will continue to try to sell the American public different kinds of Trump: grandpa Trump, husband and father Trump, underdog Trump.' They will try to cute-ify Melania and Ivanka.
Tabloids are unlikely to ever make bold political statements on their covers—but they CAN mitigate the spread of the propagandist treatment of a white supremacist president-to-be."
by Elizabeth King
This week on Bad Advice, we're helping real readers fight the evils of women everywhere AND navigate complicated social introductions without alerting the gay police.
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Medical professionals agree about what the condition looks like, but there is no consensus when it comes to a consistent and effective standard of care.
Statistics indicate more people deal with the incurable ailment than deal with ALS, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s disease, and AIDS combined.
Yet no one is talking about it."
...by Catherine Brereton
"I’m not here to say that all women should call themselves #feminist. There are good reasons not to."
"There are no reliable numbers for how many families lost a home during the crisis, but the best estimates are nearly six million.
And the foreclosure crisis did not hit everyone equally."
by Sarah Jaffe, via DAME Magazine
"The tuna trade is sitting on a bubbling undercurrent of human trafficking and slavery, and the world’s biggest retailers are keeping this corrupt industry afloat."
A look at the business of keeping the US stocked up on a seafood staple.
by Lucy Goodchild, via AlterNet
"What we see now is not the left 'eating itself' and the destruction of the great coalitions that brought so much progress in decades past.
What we are seeing is what we’ve always seen: a privileged class of liberals who still refuse to actually listen to those they claim to represent.
What we are seeing is a privileged class of liberals who see the acknowledgement of the left’s bigotry as a larger threat than the bigotry itself."
...by Ijeoma Oluo
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- Thank you for the article about safety pins. Point well made. I wea...r my pin to remind me that I have a responsibility toward others, that I am a part of a diverse community where everyone should be treated equal, that I need to watch and speak and act so that injustice is called into account. I hope that I can live up to that call. If I don't then the pin is foolish. See More
