Tag Archives: Racism
Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet
TweetPolicy Mic rounded up the 10 most racist tweets about the Boston Marathon bombing. Carlos Arredondo was a hero of yesterday’s tragedy. He also happens to have moved to the U.S. without authorization. Pope Francis reaffirms that those radical feminist nuns need to get in line. Surprise! The Everyday Sexism Project gets a lot of hate [...]
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Weekly Feminist Reader
TweetThree teens have been arrested for raping Audrie Potts, who killed herself in September. Check back in for more on Potts tomorrow from Maya. Janet Mock is the Racialicious Crush of the Week! “Girls — and later women — decide not to run for office because they don’t want to be unlikeable, not because they [...]
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Immigration and Women This Week: Mixed Emotions
TweetEd. note: This is a guest post by Juliana Britto Schwartz. By day, Juliana is a student at University of California, Santa Cruz. By night, she is a Latina feminist blogger at Julianabritto.com, where she writes about reproductive health justice, immigration, and feminist movements in Latin America. In case you missed it, the news on what it was [...]
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Weekly Feminist Reader
Tweet Fully dressed superheroines are about questioning the genre, not imposing a moral code. Kai M Green: “I will never straighten out my wrist.” Hillary Clinton: Helping women isn’t just a “nice” thing to do. Speaking of which, check out Politico on Hillary Clinton Fever. The New York Times reports on the NYPD’s policing of [...]
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Guantánamo is a grave reminder of the consequences of assuming all “terrorists are Muslims”