Tag Archives: Academics
Feminism in the Classroom
TweetIf you’re not hip to Ileana Jiménez’s amazing blog, Feminist Teacher, it’s time. Throughout her thirteen year career, Jiménez has been a leader in the field of social justice education for students of color, LGBT youth, women and girls. She’s also a major advocate of getting intersectional feminism in schools at all grade levels. In [...]
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Thank You Thursdays: Howard Zinn
Tweet “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” The authors of history, as we know all too well within the feminist movement, have inordinate power to frame the way people think about, not only the past, but their present. When one talks about the founding of the U.S. [...]
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College Campuses and the Politics of Tolerance
Tweet The Campus Tolerance Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 2002 to research tolerance towards many social and ethnic groups on American campuses, has just come out with a study of 2,500 undergrads and the results aren’t cute. Some low-lights: Depending on the university, 40% – 69% of students have either witnessed or have been [...]
Bridging Women’s Studies and Cyber-Feminism
TweetMiriam, Samhita, Jess, and I are headed to Hotlanta tomorrow for the National Women’s Studies Association’s annual conference. We look forward to meeting readers there for the first time and reuniting with old friends. (And pretty please, if any community posters are there and get to see Angela Davis’ keynote tonight, please write about it. [...]
The Feministing Five: Elaine Tyler May