“White Women’s Tears and the Men Who Love Them”

“A colleague of color shared an example in which a white woman was offered a full-time position as the supervisor of the women of color who had trained her. When the promotion was announced, the white woman tearfully requested support from the…

“Katy Perry Woke Up. She Wants to Tell You All About It.”

“In our interview, she proclaimed herself devoted to dialogue but spoke in a near uninterrupted monologue. She griped frequently about the internet (the “Wild Wild West,” a quip she repeated on the live stream nearly every time I…

“NOT SHAVING ISN’T ALWAYS A CHOICE FOR WOMEN OF COLOUR”

“I know women of colour that wear long sleeves to avoid the embarrassment of hairy arms. I know women of colour that can’t look at the mirror at themselves because the sight of hair on their body is a reminder of all the years they…

“THE WHITE MEDIOCRITY OF “MINDHUNTER””

“Ford’s mediocrity is increasingly apparent to everyone except, perhaps, the writer and director, who clearly envision him as a determined and dedicated individual hellbent on finding answers, but who the audience might peg as a white guy to whom white-guy…

“NOW IS THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE ARE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT”

“The election of Donald Trump has flattened the poetry in America’s founding philosophy: the country born from an idea of freedom is to be governed by an unstable, stubbornly uninformed, authoritarian demagogue…

“What Dating Abroad Taught Me About Stateside Racism”

“What took me longer was to understand how often the answer to that question includes racial preferences and biases.

I was reluctant to fully accept what I subconsciously knew was a huge problem, but this…

“Sex Work Gives Me Anxiety — But For Me, It’s Better Than a Cubicle”

“After a hard look at my circumstances, I decided to take up sex work. My lifelong anxiety hadn’t throttled my performance in office jobs, but a decade of cubicles had exhausted me. My social anxiety in the…

“If You’re the Only Woman or Person of Color Being Considered for a Job, You Won’t Be Hired”

“A series of studies described in a recent Harvard Business Review article indicate that having a single woman or a single person of color in the finalist pool for a job is…

“Research shows prejudice, not principle, often underpins ‘free-speech defense’ of racist language”

““We think of principles as ideas we use to guide behavior in our everyday lives. Our data show something different — that we tend to make up our mind on…

“The Power of Cherokee Women”

“Europeans were astonished to see that Cherokee women were the equals of men — politically, economically and theologically. “Women had autonomy and sexual freedom, could obtain divorce easily, rarely experienced rape or domestic violence, worked as producers/farmers, owned…