11 Ways You Can Support Women Of Color In 2018
For feminism to truly embody a message of empowerment and hope for society, it has to include all women. An exclusionary form of feminism is like an elite club.
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Social Change/Activism
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Why White People Have a Responsibility to Fight White Supremacy
White people forcibly brought Black people to America through the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Since slavery ended, we have maintained white supremacy through systemic discrimination like housing and education segregation, income inequality and mass incarceration. Society didn’t just happen to be structured to favor white people—that’s what we built it to do.
Read moreIn France, a woman has been dismissed for her anti-racism. Where is our égalité?
The removal of feminist Rokhaya Diallo from a national council after rightwing complaints reveals much about who is allowed to speak in France today
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WHITE PEOPLE MUST INVEST IN ANTI-RACISM
“How do we differentiate between ‘non-racist’ and ‘anti-racist?’” I asked the room. “There’s a big difference between the passive work of simply not being racist and the active work of dismantling systems of oppression that is being anti-racist.”
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What black men can learn from women’s struggles in the era of #MeToo
As a black man in the South in the age of Trump, I’m having to make that choice — either dialing back my passion or moving on from self-proclaimed allies — again and again. Now, in the midst of the #MeToo revolution, I see that women are facing the same choice.
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Here Are the White Nationalist, Anti-Semitic, and Anti-Muslim Accounts Twitter Suspended
Though Twitter said that verification (and the accompanying blue checkmark) isn’t an endorsement, it does come with special privileges. Tweets from verified accounts are promoted in the “top tweets” search results.
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I Ran The NYC Marathon In Chains To Urge Our Government To Acknowledge Black And Brown Suffering
No one seems to care that GEO Group, a company who’s in the business of expanding private prisons, made $4 billion in government contracts over the last 10 years and just held a conference at one of Trump’s resorts.
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In the Trump era, money is black people’s greatest weapon
“Collective economics means black people, as much as possible, should circulate their dollars in the black communities by purposeful spending with black businesses” – Suzan McDowell, OneUnited Bank
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Student organises powerful photoshoot to celebrate the beauty of black women
Inspired by other images she had seen online, Sameria Gbieor wanted to organise one of her own in a bid to inspire women to love their unique bodies.
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HOW ANTIFA USES CYBER SHAMING TO COMBAT THE ALT-RIGHT
Doxxing is the practice of revealing someone’s personal information to the public. It’s also a tactic increasingly being used in the fight between the far left and the far right.
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