By Juliana Britto Schwartz • @JulianaBrittoS • 11 years ago

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Why are so many violent criminals walking free while our law enforcement runs the War on Drugs?

Through his photography, Martin Schoeller celebrates the beauty of multiracial diversity and shows the limitations around our current categories when talking about race.

“For people who face more obstacles in the path towards reclaiming and realizing their sexuality, this sort of uncompromisingly positive and monolithic view of sex can come off as anywhere from frivolous to brutally alienating. During the long period of my life in which I felt that I was completely incapable of having any kind of healthy manifestation of a sex life, I often felt wracked by the guilt of not being a “good” feminist.”

The DREAM 30 are following in the steps of the DREAM 9 and successfully crossed the border. Read about who these brave activists are. 

A robust welfare state is an effective deterrent against pick-up artists.

In NYC, it costs the same to house an inmate for one year as it would to attend Harvard for four years.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Brittney Cooper writes about Marissa Alexander and the Prison Culture blog has a curriculum for teaching Alexander’s case.

 

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Juliana is a digital storyteller for social change. As a writer at Feministing since 2013, her work has focused on women's movements throughout the Americas for environmental justice, immigrant rights, and reproductive justice. In addition to her writing, Juliana is a Senior Campaigner at Change.org, where she works to close the gap between the powerful and everyone else by supporting people from across the country to launch, escalate and win their campaigns for justice.

Juliana is a Latina feminist writer and campaigner based in the Bay Area.

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