social justice
Backtalk: So Burning Books is Back?
This week, Dahlia and Amy get into the recent campus conflict when white students with hurt feelings thought it’d be a good idea to burn books written by a visiting author.
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Little Wins: Lucy Flores on Remaining Hopeful and Critical through the 2020 Election
“As people of color, as immigrants and descendants of immigrants, it feels like we’re screwed. But we’re really not.”
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Backtalk: The Power of the People
This week, Dahlia and Amy dig into the mass protest movements across the globe. From Puerto Rico to Portland, Oregon, people are showing up to have their voices heard en masse, demonstrating that the power of people to bring down oppressive systems is inspiring and necessary.
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Let Monarchy Reign: “We Are the Radical Monarchs” Shows How High Girls of Color Can Soar
“I began to imagine what a radical young girl’s social justice troop looked like; a group that centered and affirmed her experiences as a beautiful and brilliant Brown girl against so many societal pressures to conform to mainstream ideals of girlhood.”
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Set Yourself Free: How Generations of Black Women Have Fought Incarceration
Black women have historically fought constraint and oppression.
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Inside Job: Can We Achieve Social Justice on a Platform Built to Exploit?
The business models that have made Facebook such an effective community-building tool are fundamentally at odds with the ethics of many of the communities it helps build.
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Flagged Down: “America First” Feminism Is Not the Future
Feminist resistance must be equally resolute in rejecting assaults on women’s rights wherever they occur.
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What Happens When Men’s Careers Are “Ruined” by Sexual Misconduct Allegations
As we now know, Aziz Ansari, like so many other predatory men in Hollywood, is doing just fine.
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American Pain: Remembering Erica Garner’s Short Life and Everlasting Activism
Erica Garner died on December 30, 2017, at age 27.
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Kin in the Game: Social Change Can’t Just Be For “Families”
Journalists, aid organizations, and politicians rarely ask us to sympathize with people not categorized as “families.”
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