31 Mind-Blowing Packaging Designs. 5 Ways White Feminists Can Address Our Own Racism. Last month, the hashtag #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen erupted on Twitter.
Started by Mikki Kendall, it immediately became a channel for women of color to call out how implicit racial bias, double standards for women of different races and overt racism are all baked into mainstream white feminism. Useless99. T.
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That is the advice of my 13-year-old daughter, Esmee, as I struggle to make sense of a paragraph of notes for an upcoming Earth Science test on minerals. “Minerals have crystal systems which are defined by the # of axis and the length of the axis that intersect the crystal faces.” The Unspeakable Gift - People & Politics. The minister’s sermon was about love.
I hadn’t yet packed my bag for the hospital, and I was scared and a bit hung over from the mojitos I’d consumed the night before. Church has always been a hopeful and welcoming place for me, and that morning I needed to be held in grace. I looked at the bulletin, and the sermon title made me grit my teeth—“The Unspeakable Gift.” In a few hours I’d be checking into the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda to participate in a weeklong medical study.
The Mako Mori Test: 'Pacific Rim' inspires a Bechdel Test alternative. Fans of feminist film, or any lovers of media with strong female characters, might have a hard time justifying why they love certain movies.
But the Mako Mori test, named after a Pacific Rim character at the center of a controversy, is attempting to change the conversation about what constitutes "strong women" in film. It's no secret that Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro's $200 million love song to Japanese pop culture, was a risky venture from the start. With a multicultural cast, Hong Kong used as the main setting instead of New York or L.A., the only real star being a Black Brit many Americans had never heard of, and a storyline full of borrowed tropes that many anime fans felt were ripoffs rather than homages, the sci-fi action flick has fought an uphill battle to draw attention. Beautiful Photography Collection Captures Transgender Women In 1950s Paris. The Sex Education I Wish I Had. This originally appeared on Massive Hassle.
The Father You Choose. Published in the August 2013 issue Dieter lay in there somewhere, peacefully turning yellow and gray, his troubles over.
San Francisco – Little big city guide. Voilà un exercice très agréable que celui de trier ses photos et mettre de l’ordre dans ses souvenirs, de retour de voyage.
Ça l’est d’autant plus lorsque le voyage m’a laissé un souvenir impérissable et c’est l’un des aspect que je préfère, dans le fait de tenir un blog : réfléchir à la meilleure façon, ensuite, de partager tout cela : bonnes adresses, petites astuces, photographies… Cette fois ci, je me suis amusée à rédiger un véritable mini guide de la ville, en essayant de me montrer aussi précise que possible.
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The best advice was ‘avoid the treadmill’. It was 2003. My Mom Was An Underground Railroad For Abused Women: What She Taught Me About Feminism And Fear. I write about my mother often, not because she’s a role model or mentor or even because she’s my mother, but because she is an interesting person.
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There’s a classic Simpsons where the children are participating in that bizarre elementary-school pageant known as Model United Nations. Things get out of hand, bickering ensues, and Principal Skinner issues his ultimatum: “Do you kids want to be like the real U.N.? Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is. I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a garlic tart at high noon. It’s not that the word “privilege” is incorrect, it’s that it’s not their word.
When confronted with “privilege,” they fiddle with the word itself, and haul out the dictionaries and find every possible way to talk about the word but not any of the things the word signifies. So, the challenge: how to get across the ideas bound up in the word “privilege,” in a way that your average straight white man will get, without freaking out about it? Being a white guy who likes women, here’s how I would do it: Dudes. Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is. This means that the default behaviors for almost all the non-player characters in the game are easier on you than they would be otherwise. Oh, and one other thing.
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All of this from a child who, a few years ago, was expected to have trouble ever tying his own shoes. A lot of the credit goes to his mother, Kristine Barnett, who discovered a novel way to bring him out of his shell. This month, Random House will release The Spark , her memoir about raising Jacob. And while the boy’s story is extraordinary, Kristine feels it holds important lessons for all parents.
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