Category: Gender
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America, You’re Getting Too Old for This Shit
Happy Birthday, America. Now Get Your Act Together On Monday, July 4th, 2016, America celebrated its 240th birthday. Fireworks, booze, barbecue, and time spent with loved ones were the day’s themes. Little did we know, this day was the calm before the storm. America’s racial tension and reaction against police brutality were brewing, about to spill…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Uprooted in Mexico: the US children ‘returned’ to a country they barely know “The children called him names and laughed at his Spanish. The teacher didn’t care, he just sat in class unable to understand or speak to anyone. He cried every day and begged me to send him back to the US,” said Aguilar,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Islamic State tightens grip on women held as sex slaves The advertisement, along with others for kittens, tactical gear and weapons, appeared on an encrypted Telegram app and was shared with The Associated Press by an activist with Iraq’s persecuted Yazidi community, which is trying to free an estimated 3,000 women and girls still held…
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Lockdown: Orange is the New Black Goes Dark
On June 17th, 2016 Netflix released the fourth season of their hit show Orange is the New Black. This season of the show took on many hard-hitting topics, such as racism, prison privatization, CO brutality, and sexual trauma. This controversial season has sparked many online debates, with some critics calling it ‘ trauma porn’, a…
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The Week In Stories Around The Globe
Could the UK hold another Brexit vote? The UK made a historic decision to leave the European Union on Thursday — but has so far hesitated on pulling the trigger to go. Now questions are being asked as to whether it has to happen. Here are the scenarios in the conversation. #Brexit #EuropeanUnion #JohnOliver…
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Hope and The Righteous Side of History
A Year of Remembrance 2016 has been a year of tremendous tragedy, sorrow, social divisiveness, and political turmoil. We’ve seen the deaths of prominent celebrities, like Nathalie Cole, Alan Rickman, Prince, and Muhammad Ali, just to name a few. This has been one of the most contentious presidential election cycles in recent years. The rise…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker “A former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman was sentenced to six months in jail because a longer sentence would have “a severe impact on him,” according to a judge. At his sentencing on Thursday, his victim read…
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TransAmerica: The Case for Trans Rights
The Friend and the Controversy In 2012, a good friend, “Terri,” called me up one evening. At the time, they identified as female, but that night they felt compelled to come out to me as trans. By the end of summer in 2012, they had changed their name to Terry and identified as male. For…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
In Hiroshima 71 years after first atomic strike, Obama calls for end of nuclear weapons President Obama called for an end to nuclear weapons in a solemn visit to Hiroshima to offer respects to the victims of the world’s first deployed atomic bomb. #Obama #Hiroshima #NuclearWeapons Ghana to Ban Sale of Skin Bleaching…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Almost 80 percent of Indian women face public harassment in cities – survey “Safety of women is directly related to patriarchal mind sets that manifests itself in streets, homes and workplaces,” said Sehjo Singh, ActionAid India’s director of programmes and policy.” #WomenRights #HumanRights#Equality A Couple in Chicago On May 26, 1996, Mariana…
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