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Are you confused about whether or not to support Margaret Sanger as a feminist hero or distance yourself because of her racist, eugenicist rhetoric? Do you watch loaded Youtube productions without context and you’re not sure how to respond? I don’t promise to give you an answer, but I hope to shed [...]
2011 has been a huge year for OK4RJ! New management, new staff, new blog, new… well, pretty much everything. We’ve had a great start for the new community organizing programming: the hotline‘s set to relaunch in early 2012, as is the Community Accountability Project. Also, don’t forget about the
Well hello there! I hear we might have some new friends out there? I love new friends! Don’t judge the entire site based upon the roundup please-there’s a reason I only comment on current events and don’t actually *write* stuff and that reason is because I watch a lot of TV.
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Black women are almost twice as likely to experience premature birth and infant mortality as white women. The usual suspects of poor health outcomes, unequal access to health care and unequal access to a healthy diet, do correlate with race. However, although more wealth generally leads to better health, well-educated Black women still a rate [...]
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People say insensitive things all the time. The common vernacular is full of racist, sexist, homophobic, classist, transphobic, ableist rhetoric. We use words all the time that insult, generalize, or make caricatures of different cultures, body types, religions, and preferences or idiosyncrasies. It’s hard to [...]
There’s been a lot of internet murmur this week about a campaign by an Ohio University student group to end the wearing of offensive, racially insensitive “stereotype” costumes. That’s fine…but what’s still okay to wear as a disguise this weekend? As a person who identifies as white, I know [...]
As you may have noticed, the Occupy movement has reached us here in the Bible Belt. If you are not aware of the Occupy Movement or the details surrounding it, let me break it down for you:
OccupyWallStreet is a sustained protest against corporate greed in America. Fueled by a deteriorating standard of living for [...]
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