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Ross Douthat wants more American babies
TweetLadies, I don’t know if you’ve heard this yet, but we’re not pregnant enough. I know. Bananas… It’s the kind of thing that only a true, enlightened and thoughtful white man can say to us, with a straight face. And that man, is Ross Douthat: In the eternally recurring debates about whether some rival great power will knock [...]
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Quick Hit: The Smiths believe in raising a girl in command of her own body
Tweet Let us all take notes on parenting girls to be self possessed women from Jada Pinkett Smith: A letter to a friend… This subject is old but I have never answered it in its entirety. And even with this post it will remain incomplete. The question why I would LET Willow cut her hair. [...]
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Why are we still talking about Chris Brown?
TweetA more discerning adult can look at this twitterclusterfuckerfuffle to see that a) Jenny Johnson, a comedian I never heard of, baited Chris Brown and b) dull witted and unremorseful Chris Brown fired back in a language he’s most comfortable with: misogyny. And yes, this all stopped being news because many of us have already [...]
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The art of seeing: Wangechi Mutu
TweetThe long conversation about women’s bodies and agency during this cray cray election cycle that tried to push society backwards about our bodies got me looking back at the work of Wangechi Mutu. Mutu is one of my favorite contemporary artists. Her collage and mixed media work investigates and challenges colonial narratives and images of women, [...]
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Sojourner Truth: “A woman in control of her image”