May 2012
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“We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you...”
– Will Smith in Parade Magazine on Willow’s hair
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This song feels like Summer to me.
If anybody...
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Why I'm Still a Feminist
There seems to be a growing cadre of young women that are turning away from feminism. And certainly there is a mass force of alleged feminists that are making many of us feel further disenfranchised and marginalized. There is definitely a reluctance in many so-called feminists to detach from their privilege. Be it white privilege, class privilege, heterosexist, cis gendered or other. Still it...
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“One of the things I find very interesting in our current debates is this concept...”
– Elaine Bernard, Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program @ Harvard Law School, as spoken in The Corporation
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“We learn in school that the civil rights movement was about overcoming...”
– Danzy Senna, Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
When @CoryBooker made that comment about... →
I admit I’ve been elevating Cory to damn near god-like status. This is in some ways relieving. A reminder that he’s just a politician like the rest of them. Good work, Think Progress!
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I dunno what disturbs me more: the fierce self-hate in so many of Chris Brown’s fans or the people who don’t seem to understand that the valuing of the image of that pencil-dicked cretin (or any other dude) over the well-being of young girls is not exclusive to “Team Breezy.”
How do we raise young girls in a world that values maleness over femaleness then get indignant when those young girls do...
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Pimp Tactics: Where They Recruit
This is the final part of my three part series on pimps’ tactics. You can see parts 1 and 2 at those links. Now that I’ve covered Who They Are and What They Do, I will discuss where they find young people to exploit. To be clear, there is nowhere that is off limits to a predator. I am not trying to state recruitment occurs exclusively in these places, but it does happen heavily there....
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Just throwing this out there for y'all
whatwhiteswillneverknow:
If you have any issue with Black people or blackness. Blackness of any kind? You need to go.
I’m so sick of this thing. The Good Black/Bad Black dichotomy. The other thing I’m tired of? The Good Blackness/Bad Blackness.
And I’m sick of people trying to pit different aspects of Blackness against each other.
Yes, there are issues within the Black community. Yes, there...
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Slum Village feat. D’Angelo - Tell Me
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