Category: Marriage

• Half of the Sky

  

  Cloudy Skies Ahead During my young and single days, like most 20 somethings, I was looking for love in all the wrong places. But I had fun while looking. I was at a bar one night in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. I met a young nurse we’ll call “Rose.” She was sitting alone at the…

  August 13, 2016

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• Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn

  

  The Ignition In 2008, the housing market crashed and brought about the Great Recession. This happened just as I graduated from Northern Illinois University. I had done all the right things and was prepared to head out into the so-called ‘Adult World.’ But then the bottom fell out as the housing market crashed. That same year, the GOP…

  July 30, 2016

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• THE WEEK IN STORIES AROUND THE GLOBE

  

    Nicaraguans are using crowdsourcing technology to prove that a good map can change your life   “Taking a bus in Latin America can be a disorienting experience. While the light rail systems in places like Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro have system maps that are fairly easy to understand, most cities…

  July 27, 2016

  equality, Equity, Gender, Hate Crime, International, Marriage, Politics, race, Science, Sexism, Social Justice, Technology, War

• 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…

  May 26, 2016

  Gender, Hate Crime, Marriage, race, Sexism, Social Justice

• Blue Jeans and Cheerios Make Racists Go Cray Cray: On Interracial Love in the U.S.

  

  The Controversy On April 26, 2016, Old Navy sent out a tweet that drove the Twitter-Verse into a frenzy and rapidly sparked a backlash from the loveliest of twitter trolls. “What was the cause of this venomous reaction?” you might be asking. It was a tweet for an Old Navy sale ad that featured a…

  May 21, 2016

  Activism, Culture, Dating, Education, equality, Equity, Gender, Hate Crime, History, Human Rights, Marriage, Politics, race, Social Justice, Social Media, Television

• Finding Peace in the City of Wind

  

  “Peace is a lot like love. In order to have love, an individual must open themselves up to possible rejection and pain caused by another. Just like a community might risk war by opening themselves up to another community. To have peace or love, there is always some type of vulnerability that must be shown.…

  March 5, 2016

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