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Brenda Simmons on Martin Luther King, Jr
So worth reading: On Martin Luther King Day, Ask ‘Where Art Thou?’ Brenda Simmons, co-founder of the African-American Museum of the East End and assistant to the Southampton Village mayor, delivered...
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Michelle Malkin and racism directed towards Asian women
I guess now we’re all supposed to understand that Rush Limbaugh was “just making a joke” and the real misogynists are those nasty liberals. Michelle Malkin uses this point to castigate President Obama...
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Patricia Hill Collins Keynote Address on the Call to Community Service
She’s brilliant. BTW, this is one reason why I don’t expect “service learning” in my classes. Not everybody is in the same position to “give back.” This takes a bit of time, but it’s well worth the...
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Conversations on Social Justice at the Price School
We launched a series of conversations about social justice and social welfare. You can find them here. Richard Green, Professor and Director, Lusk Center for Real Estate at the University of Southern...
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Because you should always read anything by Stephen Coll that you can
Here is a terrific piece in the New Yorker on Why Do Americans Believe in Muslim Rage? A great quote: Some of the protests appear to have been organized by fringe political parties and radical...
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Max Stephenson on our Senate’s failure to ratify the UN Convention on the...
Max Stephenson writes about members of the US senate scoring some rather cheap political points by refusing to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: This sad episode...
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My alma mater (the University of Iowa) does something interesting
Reading through Jezebel this morning I happened upon this story about the University of Iowa asking students to voluntarily disclose their LGBTQ status as a means to get information about what level of...
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Mighty Be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowee, with Carol Mithers
We read Mighty Be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowee for my class on social justice this fall–it was the last book of the course, and it was a nice way to personalize some of the very abstract ideas we had...
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Beautiful seniors, dancing
This beautiful slideshow from Flavorwire made me smile and tear up. We should all be so fortunate.
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Comforting the afflicted
I’m rather gratified to see a backlash aimed at Seth MacFarlane, as I find his brand of humor odious from the get-go.I’ve been through this nonsense before with Andrew Dice Clay, who was a good deal...
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Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do...
Disclaimer: cultural critique of various tropes about men and women is not about you personally, even if you enjoy watching things with those tropes in them. Mmmkay? We will discover things in this...
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Comforting the afflicted
I’m rather gratified to see a backlash aimed at Seth MacFarlane, as I find his brand of humor odious from the get-go.I’ve been through this nonsense before with Andrew Dice Clay, who was a good deal...
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Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do...
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In which I tell full proffies to learn to behave themselves on the internet
I left PLANET, which is the planning educator’s listserv, after an incident that involved what I thought was a really interesting debate about Harvard students walking out on Greg Mankiw with Randy...
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I’m officially tired of the “Things you shouldn’t say to Whomever” lists online
I really do understand the desire to forestall the rudeness of racist questions–I really do–in the original entries in “Things you shouldn’t say” genre. And in some ways, the effect of these have been...
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Feminist reading lists from Feminismxianity
Feminist theology and A compilation of feminist reads from Twitter (some things I haven’t read! Awesome!) Get reading, my emancipatory friends!
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Mark Edmundson on campus rape
I’ve been reading through Mark Edmundson’s Why Teach this week, and this paragraph caught my eye: Colleges are even leery of disciplining guys who have committed sexual assault, or assault plain and...
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#ReadUrbanandPlanningWomen2014 entry #13: Ella Howard
This week’s entry is definitely in the “urban” rather than in the “planning” component of my challenge, as Ella Howard is a historian at Armstrong Atlantic State University. I read and used her book in...
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Coates and the case for reparations
Ta-Nehisi Coates published an excellent explanation of the case for reparations to African Americans in the Atlantic. Here is the original article, which is excellent, except for the quote from...
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Barbara Jordan’s 1976 DNC speech , Black history, Women’s history, LGBTQ...
With HRC’s presumptive nominee status, people have been remember Shirley Chisolm, who was the first woman to run for president (in 1972). These conversations, and the upcoming convention, have me...
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