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Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Mar 20, 2015

““You Are Not Alone” Shonda Rhimes at The Human Rights Campaign Gala in Los Angeles, 2015"

“I don’t know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Mar 25, 2015

“Everything You Believe About East African Women Is Wrong”

“East African womanhood is a minefield between the region’s war zones and too-simple Western understanding thereof. The experiences of women from Ethiopia and Somalia serve largely as a barometer of the nations’ violence. But our…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Mar 25, 2015

“550: Three Miles”

“There’s a program that brings together kids from two schools. One school is public and in the country’s poorest congressional district. The other is private and costs $43,000/year. They are three miles apart. The hope is that kids connect, but some of the public school kids just can’t get over…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Mar 12, 2015

“If your grandmother dies, don’t tell your professors.”

“One would think that they would remember feeling confused and rejected as new students. One would think that the memory of entering a campus where Women’s History or Black History was an elective, but the history of Dead White Dudes…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Mar 4, 2015

“Why women like Patricia Arquette continue to whitewash feminism”

“The struggle for justice and equality in America is everyone’s struggle, but those struggles are not equal. Arquette on the stage Sunday night told the story she related to — she’s not paid equally for the work that…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Mar 20, 2015

“When Talking About Bias Backfires”

“Why would knowledge about stereotype prevalence lead to greater stereotyping? We can find clues in research led by Prof. Robert Cialdini at Arizona State University. In a national park, Professor Cialdini’s team tried to stop people from stealing petrified wood by…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Mar 6, 2015

“ON NETANYAHU’S SPEECH AND GENDERING ISRAEL’S OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE”

“And many times, describing these assaults has meant repeatedly using language that points to a glaring majority of victims as always civilian, and a disproportionate number as women and children. But while…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Mar 9, 2015

“Teens are like Africa, and only boys are cool.”

“Most of the men in the course didn’t specifically say that they were men. But almost to a person, the women made a specific reference to their gender, usually in the first sentence. Also, we noticed that people tended to mention their race or…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Mar 17, 2015

“Pride — Official Launch Trailer (2014)”

“Pathé’s Pride is about the extraordinary true story of two very different communities who unite to defend the same cause.
It’s Summer 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power, and the National Union of Mineworkers are on strike! At the Gay Pride March in London…

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