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“Hamline University has suspended six players from its football team for donning blackface and body paint to dress up as African tribesmen for an off-campus Halloween party”
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A must-read: “Ephraim Cruz became a whistleblower against the mistreatment of detainees…Reported abuse of detainees included overcrowding of cells, denial of food for 20-30 hours to children and pregnant women”
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“So for many adoptive parents, distance between themselves and the birth parents is a positive…The best of all is when the birth parents aren’t known–because then they can be recreated in any image the adoptive parent desires.”
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This is crazy. “reports began to surface in Canada of a sport known as “n*ppertipping.” It apparently involves shoving people of Asian descent into the water.”
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“The less fortunate, isolated and apprehensive, suffer a dismaying array of abuses — from exploitively low wages to sexual harassment. Some are forced to sleep in closets; others are threatened with deportation if they complain about overwork.”
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Awesome post: “if Spears, who has 5 gazillion times the amount of economic and social privilege than I will ever have, is seen by our society as being absolutely powerless and corner-stricken, then what am I?”
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The Octavia Butler Book Club
(Click the book for the latest conversation) Feminism for Real – Jessica, Latoya, Andrea
Yes Means Yes – Latoya
Sex Ed and Youth – Jessica
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