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“The classist vilification of the Black Friday shopper”

“This was in a Walmart with a majority black staff and clientele, and it was kind of covered in a way that the LA riots were. There were helicopter shots of throngs of black bodies; there was a lot of the same kind of discourse, the…
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“The Forgotten Black Woman Inventor Who Revolutionized Menstrual Pads”

“New ideas for inventions would wake her up from sleep. She occupied herself drawing up models and building them. While other children her age were drawing fanciful aeroplanes and sports cars, Kenner was…
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“A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR A FAIR TRADE EMOTIONAL LABOR ECONOMY”

“your life as a working class or poor and/or sex working and/or disabled and/or Black or brown femme person has taught you that the only damn way you or anybody survives is by helping each other. No institutions exist to help…
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“The Inherent Feminism of Restorative Justice”

“More typically, my Socratic method exchanges were as follows. My teacher would ask me whether I agreed with a court opinion. I’d answer the best I could. The professor would play opposing counsel and retort with a “But what about x, y, or z?” My…
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“When a woman or person of color becomes CEO, white men have a strange reaction”

“When companies appoint a woman or person of color as CEO, white men, on average, don’t appear to react very well, according to a study set to be published in the Academy of Management…
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“Ida B. Wells”

“As Wells described the horrors of American lynchings, British liberals were incredulous that American white women such as Willard, who had been heralded in the English press as the “Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy,” would turn a blind eye to such violence. Wells accused Willard of being silent…
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“The Weaponization of Nostalgia: How Afghan Miniskirts Became the Latest Salvo in the War on Terror”

“US national security adviser McMaster showed Donald Trump 1970s-era photos of Afghan women wearing miniskirts in order to convince him to maintain the…
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“PLEASE KEEP YOUR AMERICAN FLAGS OFF MY HIJAB”

“2. Know that the hijab — for *me* at least — represents a rejection of materialism, of capitalism, of euro-centric beauty standards (among other significance) and draping an American flag over it erases almost everything the hijab means to me.
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“radically soft photos of black masculinity”

“Radical softness — an internet-birthed aesthetic filled with pastel colors, bare skin, and emotional honesty — has inspired scores of young women to embrace vulnerability this year. Elements of the queer, femme aesthetic have touched almost every…
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“Meet The Dominatrix Who Requires The Men Who Hire Her To Read Black Feminist Theory”

“Over time, Mistress Velvet said she began “doing a lot of theorizing” about the power dynamics of a black woman holding that kind of supremacy over a white cisgender man. She began…
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