A Conversation and Constellation for Sandra Bland
The problem with talking about race and racism is that it forces us (white and non-white alike) to recognize our complicity in a far deeper problem. It would mean we are in a shared struggle not just to defeat this administration. In short, it would mean we are in a revolution.
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Love as Political Resistance: Lessons from Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler
We don’t learn to love in a linear path, from self to family to friends to spouse, as we might have been taught. We learn to love by loving. We practice with each other, on ourselves, in all kinds of relationships.
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20 Black Women You Should Be Following Right Now
No, we don’t have all the answers. But we’ve been living and loving and creating and fighting and figuring out how to make a way out of no way longer than anybody.
Here are 20 Black women activists, artists, scholars and all-around bad-asses who are showing up and showing out, speaking truth to... Read more »
Performance Anxiety: Trump and the Commodification of Dissent in the Tech Industry
Advertising “resistance” as a brand carries a number of advantages: Covering up PR problems, protecting access to talented immigrant workers, and yes, also genuinely wanting to do the right thing.
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This Land Is Not Your Land: The Privatization of Public Space in the Trump Era
The move to privatize NPS land promises to serve as a way to justify the privatization of other public assets like schools, libraries, water, utilities, and even pensions and healthcare.
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Some of Us are Brave—Conquering Fear and Loathing in Trump's America
I am unmotivated and unmoored. I have been since Donald J. Trump became PEOTUS last fall. And it has only gotten worse since the inauguration three weeks ago. Every day seems to bring a new blow to democracy or another threat to people like me.
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Intergenerational Resistance: "This isn't any worse, it's just your turn."
“I’m 75,” my grandmother shrugged, calm and utterly unfazed. “I’ve seen worse. The thing to remember is this: if you believe in what you have to say, then you must find a way to say it. This isn’t any worse, it’s just your turn.”
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Six Ways to Take Action This Week
We’re going to have to get creative, and we’re going to have to be loud.
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Body Politic: Marginalization at the Women's March and Beyond
Here’s the thing about unity, though: it cannot be demanded. It must be constructed with care.
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Backtalk: Trump's Toxic First Days & Women's March
Dahlia and Amy try not to lose their minds talking about the first days of the new alternative-facts presidency. Dahlia shares her experience at the poorly-attended inauguration and how the Women’s March in DC was a hopeful act. Then they talk about some of the destructive policies that... Read more »
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