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Black, Latino voter suppression in the US led to lower turnouts in 2016, report says

Voter turnout in the 2016 election was lower in states with racially targeted, suppressive voting laws such as strict photo ID requirements and advance registration cutoffs, according to a new national report.

The report, titled “America Goes to the Polls,” includes a ranking of all 50 states by turnout and shows Texas and Mississippi saw the largest drops in turnout or were ranked near the bottom.

Texas and Mississippi are notorious for adopting voter regulations that have been blocked in federal courts due to their discriminatory impact on blacks and Latinos

“We know that the Obama voters didn’t all turn out and that’s understandable — but I think that kind of drop [in turnout] is really due to the change in the law, the confusion around registration and the fact that a lot of voters don’t have the required ID,” George Pillsbury, senior consultant for Nonprofit VOTE and a primary author of the report, said in a phone interview. Read more (3/16/17 4:05 PM)

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NOW’s National Action Program is launching today! The NAP works to provide tools for activists that address intersectional issues and promote political organizing as a means of resistance. Our new program consists of five amazing campaigns ranging from reproductive justice to voting rights. In this political climate, it is imperative that NOW focuses its attention on our society’s most exploited and ignored populations. Women exist at the intersection of all of these communities: women of color, low-income women, women without access to reproductive care, and immigrant women. We will not allow their rights--and ours--go ignored any longer. Check us out here and join the resistance.

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“Black transgender people live in extreme poverty with 34% reporting a household income of $10,000 or less, over eight times the general population rate - National Black Justice Coalition” via Deviant Phoenix

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Olympians Gabby Douglas and Simone Biles slay in these stunning dual ‘Teen Vogue’ covers

Teen Vogue knows representation matters — and is showing it with their new covers. In the issue, Gabby Douglas, who has spoken out about experiencing racism, reveals that another female athlete of color helped her get through it.

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And she’s Black y’all

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!!!

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yass girl

[micdotcom]

Activists are calling for the Democratic debate moderators to #AskAboutAbortion

After five Democratic debates, not a single moderator has asked any candidate about abortion rights. Activists and allies hope Thursday’s debate, hosted by PBS NewsHour’s Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff, will change that. One tweet, calling out the Supreme Court, shows why this is an urgent matter.

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Tracee Ellis Ross, Yara Shahidi and Marsai Martin featured in Essence Magazine (May 2015 issue)

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“James Luna often uses his body as a means to critique the objectification of Native American cultures in Western museum and cultural displays.  He dramatically calls attention to the exhibition of Native American peoples and Native American cultural objects in his Artifact Piece, 1985-87.  For the performance piece Luna donned a loincloth and lay motionless on a bed of sand in a glass museum exhibition case.  Luna remained on exhibit for several days, among the Kumeyaay exhibits at the Museum of Man in San Diego.  Labels surrounding the artist’s body identified his name and commented on the scars on his body, attributing them to “excessive drinking.”  Two other cases in the exhibition contained Luna’s personal documents and ceremonial items from the Luiseño reservation.

Many museum visitors as they approached the “exhibit” were stunned to discover that the encased body was alive and even listening and watching the museum goers.  In this way the voyeuristic gaze of the viewer was returned, redirecting the power relationship.

Through the performance piece Luna also called attention to a tendency in Western museum displays to present Native American cultures as extinct cultural forms.  Viewers who happened upon Luna’s exhibition expecting a museum presentation of native American cultures as “dead,” were shocked by the living, breathing, “undead” presence of the luiseño artist in the display.  Luna in Artifact Piece places his body as the object of display in order to disrupt the modes of representation in museum exhibitions of native others and to claim subjectivity for the silenced voices eclipsed in these displays. “   

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Fucking brilliant

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The real MUVA

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BREAKING: Maryland Legislature Restores Voting Rights To 40,000 Ex-Offenders

Maryland’s legislature voted on Tuesday to override Gov. Larry Hogan ®’s veto of a bill to give more than 40,000 ex-offenders in the state the right to vote while still on parole or probation.

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“This budget is not about looking back at the road we have traveled. It is about looking forward.” —President Obama on how his budget will help every American get a quality education, launch the next phase of cancer research, continue the fight to act on climate for future generations, and make sure our economy works for everyone

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Even little kids have a wage gap

Boys, on average, spend two fewer hours doing household chores per week than girls do (they play two hours more).

If they live in households where children are compensated for doing chores, boys make and save more money.  

A 2009 study conducted by University of Michigan economists found a two-hour gender disparity in responsibilities per week in a study of 3,000 kids.

75 percent of girls had chores, while just 65 percent of boys do

This disparity in chores and free time continues into adulthood all over the world.   According to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), men “report spending more time in activities counted as leisure than women. Gender differences in leisure time are wide across OECD countries.”

Year after year, studies repeatedly confirm these patterns.

The problems women face with unequal pay and housework duties actually start in childhood.

The fact that boys’ chores appear to be more profitable makes the childhood chore gap even more disturbing. Turns out, parents tend to value the work that boys do more. 

Gender stereotypes dictate these patterns. 

men who grow up with sisters do less housework than their spouses and are also significantly more socially conservative.

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Just had to bold that bottom point there because of the amount of misogynists who claim that because they have women in their family, they can’t POSSIBLY be sexist ever. 

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oh my fucking god

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gonna show this to my dad because he pays my 10 year old brother WAY MORE for chores

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Just going to show this to my parents because my brothers get to play sports or play video games or do nothing while I can’t go see friends until I’ve cleaned basically the entire house but ok that’s cool

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It was the same when I was growing up. My mom would make me clean before I was even allowed to do homework…and my brother would be allowed to sit there and watch TV.

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Some Florida Republicans Support LGBT Discrimination Protection Bill

Bucking tradition, Sunshine State Rep. Holly Raschein and other members of her party have come out in favor of protecting LGBT people from discrimination.

Yes, Florida, there are Republicans who want to give lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents legal protection from discrimination. Today the Competitive Workforce Act  is being discussed in Tallahassee.

“It’s a breakthrough for the South. It’s of huge significance that a Southern state — the third largest in the country — is taking this up,” Nadine Smith, CEO of Equality Florida, told the Associated Press. “It is the first time that a Southern legislature will be contemplating passage of a bill that affirms rights, not takes them away.”

As noted by the wire service, GOP lawmakers in the Sunshine State are better known for their efforts to block transgender people from using the bathrooms that align with their gender identity, for bills to protect pastors from having to marry same-sex couples (something already protected by the U.S. Constitution), and for measures that seek exemptions for private adoption agencies opposed to placing children with gay and lesbian foster parents. But the Competitive Workforce Act being considered by the State Senate Judiciary Committee today is, according to the AP, a sign that Republican attitudes on LGBT issues are changing. Bills like this one have never been given a hearing by the Republican-dominated legislature.

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‪#‎TBT‬ to the Roe Day rally! Thanks to everyone who came out despite the cold weather. The rally was successful, but the the fight isn't over until reproductive rights and health care are accessible for every woman, girl, and all who need it!

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Hey, House Republicans, what are you trying to say with that Black History Month tweet? Maybe have a drop of self awareness? In addition to these amazing comebacks, one person threw a previous GOP twitter mistake back in their faces.