“Where are Chicago’s poor white neighborhoods?”

“Martha Victoria Diaz, a lawyer who grew up in Lake View during the late ’70s and ’80s, remembers the Chicago neighborhood as being fairly integrated. She remembers many Latino families like her own living on the block, as well as white…

“We Should Call Brocialism What It Is — White Populism”

“While Sanders tied or won whites everywhere, he lost Blacks 75–25 overall, and lost Latinos 65–35 overall. It is telling that as diverse populations grow, they have increased say over who Democrats choose as President. It is even…

“Muslims of Reddit, how much did your life change after 9/11?”

“My friends treated my family and I differently. We stopped getting invited to events like birthday parties and such. This was a big deal because in my old neighborhood when you had a birthday the entire neighborhood was…

“How to pacify a generation: tell them to think “happy thoughts” about chronic social issues”

“Telling young people to create “opportunities” out of tragedy and crippling economic deprivation, which is seizing on the logic of disaster capitalism, is like asking…

“Micro-Affirmations”

“Robert Martínez, Human Resources Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at Princeton University, points out that in order to understand the effect of micro-affirmations one needs to start by acknowledging the pervasiveness of micro-inequities. Realizing the potential psychological damage…

“Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity”

“It is well known that people tend to favor and promote those who are similar to them — and that this in-group bias is problematic because it reinforces stereotypes and inequality. However, while it is a common tendency, not…

“Sex and the Muslim Feminist”

“sex positive feminism stands for the precept that women are not free until and unless they are sexually free. In the competitiveness that graduate seminars breed, my classmates rambled on about threesomes, triumphant and unceremonious dumpings of emotionally attached lovers…

“I Hope “Becky” Becomes a Slur”

“You’ll argue with your daughters when they listen to edgy pop music and call themselves Beckys.

You’ll walk down the street and men will scream Becky at you from car windows.

People will touch your hair without permission…

“HOW TAYLOR SWIFT IS THE MOST DANGEROUS TYPE OF WHITE WOMAN, EXPLAINED”

“No one is better at this type of specifically White female performative faux melodrama — where status is cultivated and maintained through a state of perpetual exaggerated victimhood (which everyone laps up…