“Am I Queen? On Beauty Privilege and Its Discontents”

“If there is something I love it is being alone in public space. That feeling of being absolutely with myself surrounded by people has a magic energy to it that I enjoy thoroughly. There’s a comfortable harmony in having the peace of my…

“The Infuriating History of White Women Voting Against Women’s Rights”

“As the exit polls plainly show, the majority of white women don’t consider themselves sisters with the non-white, class-separated, LGBTQ female voters; instead, many of these women identify more closely with…

“Your School Shapes How You Think About Inequality”

“Students at racially diverse schools, particularly black and Hispanic students, are more tuned in to injustice than students going to school mostly with kids that look like them.

That’s one of the main threads of…

“Work and Jail”

“I have run in to some interesting recent readings on the nexus between work, or the lack thereof, jail and drugs. In case you didn’t know, the numbers are staggering…

So, perhaps the war on drugs disproportionately affects less-educated minorities, reconciling Petit with…