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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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.
Read moreWhite 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 moreThe removal of feminist Rokhaya Diallo from a national council after rightwing complaints reveals much about who is allowed to speak in France today
Read more“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.”
Read moreAs 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.
Read moreThough 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.
Read moreNo 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.
Read more“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
Read moreInspired 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.
Read moreDoxxing 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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