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Your Silence Will Not Protect You: The Strategic Disruption of Brett Kavanaugh’s Agenda

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by vanessa borjon
September 7, 2018 at 1:12pm
What’s at stake if Kavanaugh is confirmed? Everything.
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Unapologetically Free: Charlene Carruthers Gives Us A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

by Jenn Jackson
August 27, 2018 at 12:04pm
If we see our work through a Black Queer Feminist Lens, we can actually move toward and be engaged in that work of collective liberation. Read more »
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Flagged Down: “America First” Feminism Is Not the Future

by Hilary Matfess
August 13, 2018 at 9:00am
Feminist resistance must be equally resolute in rejecting assaults on women’s rights wherever they occur. Read more »
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Light of Truth: Ida B. Wells Enters the Very White, Very Male Statue Game

by Jordan McDonald
July 23, 2018 at 1:25pm
Can we reimagine public remembrance as a community-funded endeavor? Read more »
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Valuable Resources: The Ableist Fight Over Plastic Straws

by s.e. smith
July 10, 2018 at 12:36pm
Straws are easy to target, but cities and companies still rely on environmentally harmful practices. Read more »
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Gambling for Freedom: Crafting Sally Hemings’s Complicated Legacy

by Jenn Jackson
July 3, 2018 at 11:28am
Monticello is recognizing the slave girl who was raped by her master. Read more »

What Just Happened? : From Fake News to Real Bullets

by Bitch HQ
June 29, 2018 at 1:16pm
We all knew this would eventually happen. Read more »
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Out of the Frame: How News and Pop Culture Obscure Immigrant Women

by Celena Cipriaso
June 26, 2018 at 1:33pm
Stories about undocumented women focus on how the American government “saved” them from harrowing abuse. Read more »
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Racial Roadblocks: The NAACP Lights a Flare on Anti-Blackness

by Jenn Jackson
June 21, 2018 at 2:03pm
It is nearly impossible to comprehend what it means to be a Black traveler in the United States today without confronting our long anti-Black history. Read more »
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What Just Happened? : Family Separation, Government Gaslighting

by Bitch HQ
June 20, 2018 at 12:40pm
If you live in the United States, the Trump administration is carrying out these tactics in your name. Don’t let them.  Read more »
Marchers in the Resistance contingent of the 2017 San Francisco Pride Parade hold signs reading "Stop Police Terror" and "Black & Brown Lives Matter"

Targeting the Opposition: The Long, Troubling History of Cops at Pride Parades

by Kitty Stryker
June 20, 2018 at 11:01am
Pride started in the late 1950s as a series of riots and protests against police officers. Read more »

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