Tag Archives: racism

Call for Submissions: Ain’t I A Woman: Race, Feminism And Social Media

This showed upon my screen and I wanted to pass it along. Please share it with anyone who might be interested. It looks like a fantastic project! “AIN’T I A WOMAN: RACE, FEMINISM AND SOCIAL MEDIA” CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Morgane Richardson, Professional Feminist, Founder of Refuse the Silence and Ain’t I a Woman Events and Jessie Daniels, Associate […]

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When Straight, White, Cisgender Men Don’t Get It

There’s a post on SexIs today from Roland Hulme, in which he shows that he almost gets how his privilege works. In his piece, he discusses the responses to a previous post of his, in which he wrote that (at the time), he was of the opinion that transgender people shouldn’t be able to change […]

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Race Bias Influences Who Gets STI Tests

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If you need some evidence that we’re not actually in a post-racism world, here’s another bit of proof. When adolescent women show up at emergency rooms saying that they’re experiencing lower abdominal pain and/or urinary or genital symptoms, just over 26% of them test positive for gonorrhea, chlamydia, and/or trichomonas. And since many adolescents don’t […]

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