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By jstites@msmagazine • 14 years ago

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We’re looking for bright, energetic, resourceful people with excellent research and writing skills. Our interns help gather and fact-check information, work on specific office projects, and participate in creating the magazine’s National News section. This is a great opportunity to learn how the editorial side of a non-profit magazine operates — from the inception of an idea to the final printed product — and a great place to gain new feminist perspectives. Open to highly motivated undergraduates and recent graduates, the winter internship runs from October 1st through December 23rd at our West Coast office in Los Angeles, California.  Come join us for an extraordinary winter term and an opportunity to immerse yourself in feminist journalism! 

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By jstites@msmagazine • 14 years ago

Juneteenth: A Time for Celebration, Reflection and Action

Tomorrow is Juneteenth, the holiday that observes the day when the last of the people enslaved by the Confederacy were freed at the end of the Civil War. On June 19, 1865, U.S. troops arriving in Galveston, Texas, read the Emancipation Proclamation and, more importantly, had enough numbers to enforce it. History books will tell you that the war, and legal enslavement of African Americans, ended in 1865.
But really.
My city’s local Juneteenth celebration will take place in a city park in what is locally referred to as “the black part” of town (even though people of every ethnicity live there). The fact that we still think of neighborhoods as being “black” or “white” is an annoying symptom.
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Tomorrow is Juneteenth, the holiday that observes the day when the last of the people enslaved by the Confederacy were freed at the end of the Civil War. On June 19, 1865, U.S. troops arriving in Galveston, ...
By jstites@msmagazine • 14 years ago

The Adventures of a Female Gearhead

True story: my sophomore year in college, my friend Jason and I were walking back to my residence hall when we passed two guys attempting to change a tire. I say “attempting” because at that point they’d managed to dig out the owner’s manual and the jack, and were at a loss as to what to do next. When we offered to help, one of the guys looked at Jason and asked, “Do you know what a v-notch is?”
Jason did not, at which point I explained that the v-notch (where the jack is supposed to go) can be found on the underside of the car about 18 inches from the wheel well. This spot is reinforced in order to ...

True story: my sophomore year in college, my friend Jason and I were walking back to my residence hall when we passed two guys attempting to change a tire. I say “attempting” because at that point they’d ...
By jstites@msmagazine • 15 years ago

“Us” & “Them”

So, by now I’m sure most of us have seen the new commercial from the organization calling itself the National Organization for Marriage.
Two things strike me about this commercial. First, its implication that freedom is a zero-sum game – if you gain rights, I automatically lose some of mine. And second, that every one of its arguments – Every. Single. One – was used 40 years ago to scare white people into opposing integration laws. We can’t let black people ride our buses and drink from our water fountains, or be allowed any of the other privileges that whites take for granted, because they won’t be able to restrain themselves if we do. (Which is pretty funny… I’d ...

So, by now I’m sure most of us have seen the new commercial from the organization calling itself the National Organization for Marriage.
Two things strike me about this commercial. First, its implication that freedom is ...
By jstites@msmagazine • 15 years ago

The Heart of the Matter

About a year ago, an acquaintance from college raped me at a reunion. I filed charges, but as is sadly typical in cases of acquaintance rape, the authorities chose not to prosecute him. I’ve gone through a lot of anger, fear and a spectrum of other emotions that will be familiar to any victim of violent crime. Then, last weekend, I ran into him.
I work at a college that’s in the same athletic conference as the one he and I attended, at this happened at an athletic event. Before, I went over the possibility that he would be there and decided that it was a long shot and not worth my anxiety. But now, there he was. First, I ...

About a year ago, an acquaintance from college raped me at a reunion. I filed charges, but as is sadly typical in cases of acquaintance rape, the authorities chose not to prosecute him. I’ve gone through a ...