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Quick Hit: Guernica interviews Ayana Mathis

By Alexandra | Published: May 24, 2013
TweetGuernica has just published a great interview with Ayana Mathis, who has just published her first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, to great popular and critical success. The whole transcript is worth the read, but my favorite parts were Mathis’s descriptions of writing minority characters without burdening them with representation. She explains: My book [...]
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Quick Hit: Why are runways so white?

By Alexandra | Published: March 20, 2013
TweetSpoiler: the answer is racism. BuzzFeed invited five fashion show casting directors to talk about why almost every model we see walking down the runway are white. Some of their answers, like James Scully’s, won’t make you want to vomit: Scully’s conception of diversity is more meaningful than the common tokenism he calls out, though [...]
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Quick hit: Moving forward from past reproductive injustices against black women

By Lori | Published: February 20, 2013
Tweet Dr. Vanessa Cullins (Vice President for External Medical Affairs at PPFA) and Eleanor Hinton Hoytt (Black Women’s Health Imperative President and CEO, featured in the video above) have co-authored an important piece on The Grio framing recent progress in civil and women’s rights in proper historical context which includes reproductive injustice against women of [...]
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Quick Hit: Gaslighting, explained in ‘Clueless’-themed GIFs

By Lori | Published: January 11, 2013
Tweet  I mean you guys, it’s Friday and this is all pretty self explanatory. Go check out this handy post explaining the concept of gaslighting in “Clueless”-themed GIFs. Tweet
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Quick hit: Obama named TIME 2012 Person of the Year

By Lori | Published: December 19, 2012
TweetThe completely warranted if somewhat safe pick is accompanied by a lovely longform profile that manages to add new dimensions to a now well-worn story of Obama’s journey from Chicago community organizer to re-elected president and historical icon.The profile emphasizes the role that women, minorities, and young people played in electing Barack Obama both times. [...]
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