Tag Archives: Race
Why I’m not looking for the missing Black folks on HBO’s “Girls”
TweetBefore I start: I did not see any of the second season yet, so NO SPOILERS! Anyway…Almost everybody loves HBO’s Girls–even black girls like me who don’t have a TV and have to make arrangements to go watch it at someone else’s place (hence the reason I haven’t seen season 2). I say “almost” because [...]
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New report shows how the principle of “personhood” is already criminalizing pregnancy in the US
Tweet Regina McKnight was charged with homicide by child abuse after the state said her cocaine use caused her to have a stillbirth. It was later determined that the stillbirth was due to an infection, and her conviction was overturned–after she’d already served eight years in prison. Laura Pemberton wanted to have a vaginal birth after having had a [...]
Also tagged criminal justice system, Personhood Amendment, poor women, pregnant women, pro-choice, Reproductive Rights, war on drugs Comments closed
The Personal is Political: Reflections on my feminism at 25
TweetThe personal is political. Sound familiar? If you’ve ever taken a beginner’s Gender Studies course, or read anything about the second wave of feminism in the 1960′s and 70′s, it probably does. It was the collective cry of women who wanted their feminism to be taken seriously as a platform for acknowledgment of their lived [...]
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How does media get past their binders full of minorities?
TweetI graduated from journalism school in 2001, right around when “New Media” became a thing to take in j-schools across the country. We learned how to use basic HTML! We wrote stories … for the WEB! The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University — sorry, the The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications [...]
Also tagged binders, binders full of women, diversity, Media, Racism, Women of Color Comments closed
God made a Latina farmer, too