Class, accessibility, and rebranding feminism
Reblogged from the feminist anthropologist: Captain Obvious has brought the news to us this weekend: abortion is not the cause of society's ills and feminists are not all man-hating, childless,...
View ArticleHow to Survive Scholastic Books for Girls
A plump, juicy bite of USDA Grade A prime time Sexism for your delectation: Oh! and um…Scholastic Books. Yeah, you. Stay the fuck away from my daughters. BOYS ONLY: How to Survive Anything! Table of...
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Reblogged from blue milk: We have to get this film to cinemas. I want to see it. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over a...
View Article“The Nature” (of Women)
I am not going to make claims about the nature of women (hence the strange punctuation in the title), and I will say a little about why not at the end of this post. Instead, I am going to talk about...
View ArticleSapphire Unbound: A Black Womanist Scholar Speaks her Mind: “Project...
I first encountered Dr. Jordan-Zachery when she followed me on twitter. I checked out her blog, and it is fantastic and very important. She is insightful, and she often has guest bloggers who add...
View Article“My Lethal Weapon’s my Mind”
Ice-T, Juan Williams, Tipper Gore, Jello Biafra and Nelson George, all on the Oprah Winfrey Show (circa 1990) discussing the influence of rap music on white teenagers. Alright, alright. That’s not...
View ArticleSally Haslanger on Gender
How to understand gender is a complicated issue that has not been settled in any conclusive or definitive way. And it is not my goal here to enter this discussion. For now, I wish only to describe...
View ArticleThe pathology of white privilege
Reblogged from Feminist Philosophers: A long video by Tim Wise; worth having in your collection I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I know Tim Wise and his work. White people! Watch it!
View ArticleStructural Inequality
My approach to working up this difficult and abstract concept is to specify a simple social context from which a structural inequality emerges. Using this example, I will describe a general picture...
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