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I'm Martha. This is the internet as it suits me. Everything I sent you in a "check this out email". And everything I meant to.

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A collection of resources to help educators start the conversation about race in the classroom....

This is a similar collection of resources to help folks think about how to talk about race with children, but specifically with the audience of educators in mind.

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A collection of resources to help white parents think about how to talk to their children about...

I haven’t posted on this platform in a long time, but I recently put together a couple of collections of resources to help us talk about race as parents and as teachers.  This is the link for parents.

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via Mike Brown: Facts and dog whistles by Jonathan Korman (@miniver)

Part I here

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg showed off her collars, here are the best ones

No, they are not doilies. They are jabots. And they all have special meaning! And we ranked them!

Oh Notorious RBG, I heart you so big.

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Latest Polls | RealClearPolitics

I have to admit I'm taking an inapporpriate amount of pleasure scrolling through the current polling data for potential 2016 presidential races.  Cause it's nice to see Hillary so dominant against any potential GOP nomination.

(I mean. If I had my druthers, it's Warren for president all the way, but I'm trying to be realistic)

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I think a lot of people don’t understand that when we talk about these issues—blackface, rape jokes, the appropriation of marginalized cultures, and so on—we are having an ethical conversation, not a legal one. There is no thought police. No one’s coming to your house and carting you off to Insensitivity Prison. But you, as a person living on this planet, get to make a choice whether you want to hurt people or help people. Whether you want to listen or shut people out. I can’t imagine why you’d choose “defensive shithead” over “nice lady capable of empathy,” but okey dokey.

Lindy West (via lavenderlabia)

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"And other doctors will say, Bless you, you're so brave, but they turn women away and often don't even refer them to someone who will help them. And some will say smugly, We don't do that here, failing to recognize that what he does allows them to make that smug declaration, allows them to present themselves as noble caregivers while they send their most desperate patients out to fend for themselves."

from "The Abortion Ministry of Dr. Willie Parker" at Esquire about the last doctor who preforms abortions in Mississippi.

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I think Anne of Green Gables was TOTALLY a feminist. So this is an awesome list.

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Fifty Shades of Grey As a Feminist Fantasy

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“Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action." 

- Amelia Earhart

Happy Birthday to Amelia Earhart!

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Happy Batman Day!

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Jewish And Arab People Are Posing Together In Inspiring Photos Saying "We Refuse To Be Enemies"

"My mother is Jewish. My father is Palestinian. I am their face."

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Superman is undocumented.

Comedian Hari Kondabolu.

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azspot:Ruben Bolling

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Here's How The U.S. Sparked A Refugee Crisis On The Border, In 8 Simple Steps

The 57,000 children from Central America who have streamed across the U.S.-Mexico border this year were driven in large part by the United States itself. 

Quick history lesson about US interventions in Latin America and their contributions to the instability that has lead to our current refugee/immigration crisis.

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Why Elizabeth Warren Should Run for President

Imagine there were a political movement that was against pablum in the public square, that promoted tough debates on pressing issues, that was suspicious of coronations, and cared about a presidential candidate’s qualities as much as the ideas she would bring to office? 

In my wildest, most wonderful dreams.

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Ladies be crazy!

Thanks for reminding me of this, TBZ.