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Can we talk about race and inequalities without talking about racism?
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How Race/ism and Patriarchy Interact To Shape Inequality
INTRODUCTION Inequality can be best understood in the context of how humans conceptualize ‘equality’. In the United States, a nation that projects an image of democracy and fairness, inequality is framed as a consequence of the typical stratification of ability, effort, and worth. This can also be found in the ways that inequality is framed…
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Decolonization: What Ought To Be
“The modern collapse of “Reason” & “History” into all things European represented a failure of reason & history that required self-deception regarding Europe’s scope. Put differently: Europe sought to become ontological; it sought to become what dialecticians call “Absolute Being”. Such Being stood in the way of the human being, of a human way of…
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Cishetpatriarchy is not community
I AM A GENDERQUEER BLACK TRANS MAN. I am racialized as Black, a Trans man, genderqueer, bi, & a descendant of stolen Africans on Indigenous peoples’ stolen land ALL AT THE SAME TIME. I know this may be astonishing to you but none of these things are choices. They are the social, political, and historical…
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Transitioning Into A Decolonized Masculinity
Its been 4 months. Its been 4 months today that I’ve been on HRT. I came out to everyone else about being genderqueer about 2 years ago. I told loved ones that I wanted to transition after the passing of my grandmother this May. I’ve known I was trans since I was a kid. As…
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D.A.T.T. Freedom School Week 4 Summary – Cishetpatriarchy, Gender, & Sexuality
Liberation Circle & Reading Summaries from D.A.T.T. Freedom School Summer 2015 – Week 4 Cishetpatriarchy, Gender, & Sexuality The Storify for this topic’s Liberation Circle tweet chat can be found HERE. What is GENDER? Gender is the range of mental and behavioral characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between and across, masculinity and femininity. In Western…
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D.A.T.T. Freedom School: Summer Session
Purpose: DATT Freedom School’s purpose is to provide political education to those who want to learn online with a variety of platforms. DATT Freedom School is a dynamic online work study group that includes the basis of a book club, hosted tweet chats every other week, video lessons, & master posts. Goal: Provide people with…
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Intersectional Food Politics & The Failure of SNAP Challenges
Introduction Recently Gwyneth Paltrow tweeted a picture of $29 worth of food to equate to what a family on SNAP benefits has for a week with on food stamps. She isn’t the first celebrity to do this, we’ve even seen politicians do this to make a point to fight against cutting SNAP benefits. While they…
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Let’s Talk About Human Rights: The Failure of ‘Rights’ Rhetoric
INTRODUCTION The popular narratives behind civil rights have come to the forefront in light of the recent attention paid to extrajudicial murders of Black people by the state. What I find most interesting is the constant references back to the civil rights movement. Much of what has been in the media refers Ferguson, NYC, and…
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“The Blacker The Berry” Is A Black Pathology Anthem
Kendrick Lamar recently dropped the track “The Blacker The Berry”, what has been called a “Black Anthem” that deals with the hypocritical racial self hatred in the Black community. As a hip hop head I was hype to first listen to the song, hoping that it would say something critical, contextually accurate, reveal the true…