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Zoe Saldana can miss me with her oversimplified views on race and gender
Tweet Photo: Coqueran/FameFlynet Pictures We haven’t talked about this at great length yet but I’d been thinking about Zoe Saldana’s comments about race in recent interviews (BET and Allure) she’s done to promote the new Star Trek film. I don’t know. The key problem in Zoe’s comments seems to be rooted in the fact that [...]
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Are Republicans going to try to impeach Obama?
TweetI’m surprised it took House Republicans three years to talk impeachment. Certainly, when they won back the House, which is where the impeachment process begins, I imagined “impeachment” would become part of our collective lexicon again as the Republicans went after another Democratic president. The loss of the White House in 2012, allowed House Republicans [...]
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The Academic Feminist: Women of Color, Racism and Resilience in Academia
TweetWelcome back, Academic Feminists! Today, I am proud to present an interview with Carmen G. González, professor of law at Seattle University School of Law, who, together with co-editors Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, and Angela P. Harris, recently released the collection, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in [...]
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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet
TweetAir Force brochure on sexual violence tells victims to “submit” (and tells rapists… nothing). More women are getting cosmetic surgery on their arms, and the trend is attributed to the FLOTUS. “As uncomfortable as it is for some parents to imagine their teenage children as sexual beings, that discomfort is no excuse for denying all [...]
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