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My politics are…
My politics are centered on strengthening the margins and making sure that we hold each other accountable because, even within the margins, it’s a warzone, y’all. I know so much about my own oppressors...
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You should be a…
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it....
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When you are 9,…
When you are 9, or 12, or 17, it is easy to overlook racist comments. That your friends’ dad does not like black people has little to do with what your friend thinks, right? When you cannot yet vote,...
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Michelle Goldberg, on millennials’ economically liberal mindsets
If you want to know why millennials are far more economically liberal than other generations, consider the news that colleges have started opening on-campus food banks to keep their students from going...
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Jewelle Gomen, on the representation of Black lesbians
It is the representation of black lesbian lives, not simply its analysis and deconstruction that has the most immediate, broad-based and long-lasting cultural and historical impact. Only by telling our...
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Amanda Marcotte, on conservative men and anti-sex laws
This is why conservative men confidently endorse laws and social rules that are anti-sex, even when that makes them screamingly obvious hypocrites who feel zero desire to curtail their own sexual...
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June Jordan, on telling the truth
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way. –June Jordan (via Learning Everyday…)
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Havlova, on feminism and men
My feminism has nothing to do with men. It is not defined as “equality for all genders”. It isn’t even about equality. I don’t want to be equal with men because I don’t like or want this patriarchy men...
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I am afraid, or, 2017: Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here
I am afraid on the basis of all of my identities. That fear is not just of Trump himself, but of unchecked Republican control of the executive and legislative branches of our government, and likely...
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