“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…

“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…

“Poet Claudia Rankine: ‘The invisibility of black women is astounding’”

“Soon, these small, private experiences — which Rankine gathered from her own life and from friends’ anecdotes — begin to accumulate. Their power is incremental, collective, claustrophobic, in the text as in…

“How to Sell a Hijab in Malaysia”

“Yusof is now among the growing number of Malaysian women who are trying to revolutionize the hijab’s contentious image. While the scarf has tended to be viewed primarily as a marker of Islamic duty and identity, and sometimes, especially in the West, of female…

“How ‘-Phobic’ Became a Weapon in the Identity Wars”

“As the gay rights movement exited the psychiatrist’s office and marched up the steps of the Supreme Court, Gregory Herek, a psychologist at the University of California, Davis, argued in a 2004 paper published in Sexuality Research &…

“Sonita, The Feminist Afghan Rapper Fighting Against Child Marriage, Will Give You Chills”

“Sonita’s family had moved to Iran when she was eight, fleeing the war that raged in Afghanistan. Since she didn’t have a legal ID, Sonita couldn’t go to school, and instead…

“Alabama Inmates Organize Multi-Prison Strike in Protest of Prison Labor: We Won’t Contribute to Our Own Oppression”

“The Movement held similar labor protests two years ago, as the U.S. Justice Department investigated conditions in Alabama prisons…

“Life in the Paris Banlieues”

“After the Charlie massacre — and after a third terrorist, Amedy Coulibaly, gunned down a black policewoman outside a Jewish school and four Jews at a kosher supermarket — there was a widespread feeling, in France and elsewhere, that the killings were somehow related to the…

“Why Letting Women Take Tea Breaks Was Once Considered Dangerous”

“sipping tea was once thought of as a reckless, suspicious act, linked to revolutionary feminism.

Huh? Well, the feminist complaints came from 19th century, upper class Irish critics who…