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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Charlottesville White Supremacists Face Federal Charges
The four men charged were “among the most violent individuals present in Charlottesville“ at the Unite the Right rally in 2017.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: The Retroactive Representation of Fantastic Beasts
Who knew that Nagini was actually a Korean woman this whole time?
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Facebook Reviews Policy Allowing “White Separatism”
According to Facebook, white nationalism “doesn’t seem to always be associated with racism.”
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Growing Pains: Why Labor is the Real Food Movement We Should be Paying Attention To
Laborers—often migrant laborers—work long hours without access to basic employment protections.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: McDonalds Strikes Make #MeToo History
McDonalds employees staged walkouts across the U.S. to protest the company’s response to sexual assault allegations.
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Ancestral Roots: Bernice L. McFadden Sings An Enslaved Black Woman’s Song
After the darkness, there’s light.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Strike
McDonald’s workers are going on strike over sexual harassment.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Whiplash at The New Yorker Festival
Over the course of just a few hours yesterday, The New Yorker invited and uninvited Steve Bannon from headlining its annual festival.
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Barbara Ehrenreich and Alissa Quart on Changing the Narrative of Poverty in Media
Barbara Ehrenreich and Alissa Quart, the brains behind the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, discuss their respective books, the importance of identifying with one another across class, and #MeToo.
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Out of the Frame: How News and Pop Culture Obscure Immigrant Women
Stories about undocumented women focus on how the American government “saved” them from harrowing abuse.
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