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Social scientists, especially women social scientists, have played a crucial yet unsung role in bringing us closer to our shared ideals of gender equality, social justice, and human wellbeing. Let us celebrate them this Women’s History Month!
A peer-reviewer for the scientific journal PLOS ONE rejected a manuscript authored by two women, not for its content or flaws in the scientific process, but because it wasn’t written by a man.
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
Read:Â A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Reblogging to follow up on the “Can men be feminists?” question.
“THIS IS GOING TO BE THE HIGHEST PRIORITY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE”
Dedicating YOUR LIFE to fighting the abuse of women and girls? If THAT’S NOT FEMINIST, NOTHING IS. Â
GO (former) PREZ CARTER!!!
Jimmy Carter on His New Book:Â Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Why Gender Equality in Literature Isn’t as Simple as 50/50
That last sentence/paragraph really could have used some expansion/explanation.
me: wow I have a lot of books
*goes on tumblr*
me: wow I have no books
film about a group of men getting into shenanigans= “comedy” film about a group of women getting into shenanigans= “chick flick”
film about a friendship between two men= “buddy flick” film about a friendship between two women= “chick flick”
emotional film about father/son relationships= “drama” emotional film about mother/daughter relationships= “chick flick”Â
film about a young man finding identity= “coming of age” film about a young woman finding identity= “chick flick”
Fear and Loathing in the Meadows
My class today
Me: So when you see the 4 year old boy pull the little girl's hair...
Students: He likes her!
Me: Now they are around 11 or 12 and he grabs her arm and wrestles her to the ground even though she calls him a jerk and yells at him to leave her alone.
Students: That is just how boys are.
Me: Now they are 18 and he grabs her arm and--
Students: Oh, that's not okay.
Me: Really? How would he know? How would she know? How would you know? You just told me that for the first 17 years of these children's lives that you thought it was cute, sweet, and natural for a boy to grab a girl and be rough with her.
Students: Oh.
Me: Oh, is right.
Comedian Emily Heller is a feminist, but she recognizes the branding problem. Watch her full Late Night set!
1. Brittney Cooper, co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective, regular contributor to Salon, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers:
White people should recognize that the best way to be good allies is to go work among their own people (white people) to create more allies. Too frequently, white allies think we are asking them to come into our communities to affirm our account of racist acts and structures. What we are really asking is for them to 1) affirm that account boldly among other white people; and 2) use their privilege to confront racial injustices when they see them happening, whether in the grocery store or the boardroom.
2. Andrea Lee Smith, co-founder INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Boarding School Healing Project and the Chicago chapter of Women of All Red Nations:
As Native organizer Klee Benally notes, racial justice movements need accomplices, not allies. Everyone should see their investment in dismantling white supremacy. Racial justice organizing is not about confessing race privilege, saying all the right radical things and trying to avoid offending people of color. It’s about building social movements that can dismantle white supremacy. Everyone needs to do that work.
3. Sylvia Chan-Malik, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers:
Understand that whiteness is an asset, something owned and embodied. The best explanation of this idea can be found in law professor Cheryl Harris’ 1993 essay “Whiteness As Property,” in which she lays out how the law has treated and protected whiteness as a right, for example, with redlining in housing, or racial disparities in education. Like a luxury car or an expensive suit, whiteness facilitates entry into elite or exclusive spaces. White people should acknowledge that while whiteness does not necessarily grant access to such spaces, it allows them far more mobility, comfort and safety than those without it.
4. Daisy Hernández, author of A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir, Kenan Visiting Writer at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill:
I’ll be honest here and tell you that I do not advise white allies, frenemies or enemies on what they can do to learn about race. I just never have and have never seen it as my business. That said, I do lecture to largely white college audiences and I am teaching at a college where the student body is majority white. In other words, I have to talk about race to white folks and what they can do. I ask them to look at their relationship with language. Every time they are texting, tweeting or Facebooking, they are making choices about words and the stories we tell about race. What are you noticing about headlines when the police kill another black teenager? Is the teen described as a kid on his way to college or as a “black male”? I try to raise awareness that we’re trafficking in racial ideology 24-7 online—and that we can change the direction of these conversations every time we hit “comment.”
Eleven prominent writers and activists explain what it takes to do the difficult work of fighting white supremacy
Mark Ruffalo wants more Black Widow Avengers merchandise (us too, Mark).
Pope Francis drops some feminist truth at the Vatican
Around the world, women earn 24% less than men on average, and they earn half the income of their male counterparts over their lifetimes. Pope Francis knows this is a big problem — and it’s not the only women’s issue he’s addressing.
Y'all need to watch the last 15 seconds of this video if you watch nothing elss
For years, I opened my 11th-grade U.S. history classes by asking students, “What’s the name of that guy they say discovered America?” A few students might object to the word “discover,” but they all knew the fellow I was talking about. “Christopher Columbus!” several called out in unison. “Right. So who did he find when he came here?” I asked. Usually, a few students would say, “Indians,” but I asked them to be specific: “Which nationality? What are their names?” Silence. In more than 30 years of teaching U.S. history and guest-teaching in others’ classes, I’ve never had a single student say, “TaĂnos.” So I ask them to think about that fact. “How do we explain that? We all know the name of the man who came here from Europe, but none of us knows the name of the people who were here first—and there were hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of them. Why haven’t you heard of them?” This ignorance is an artifact of historical silencing—rendering invisible the lives and stories of entire peoples.
Rethinking Columbus: Towards a True People’s History by Bill Bigelow (via bestoffates)
