“Ultimately,” AffiDavid says, “ I think the trans and gay obsession with pageants is an obsession with being seen.”
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Transsexual vs. transgender? Both terms have been used to refer to individuals within the trans community but they don’t carry the same connotations.
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Dive into parachute science, a parasitic approach to data gathering that cuts host country researchers off from opportunities in their field.
How Gomes Eanes De Zurara Shaped Racism in Its Current Form
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Political Dog Whistles and How to Spot Them
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Remembering Shinzo Abe’s Legacy: Free and Open Indo-Pacific, Womenomics, and Right-Wing Nationalism
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Xenophobia Finds Us Everywhere – Even In Games and Cafeterias
Because social forces out of any single person’s control echo into the most trivial parts of life.
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It’s Only Cool if You’re Not a Teenage Girl: A Look at the Trivialization of Fangirl Culture and Women in the Workplace
The trivialization of teen girls in fan culture mirrors the trivialization of women in the workforce.
Instead of Corporations, Foreign Workers Get the Blame for Exploitative Practices
Workers from the global south take up the work northern citizens don’t want and the blame that corporations should be receiving.
When No One Listens and No One Believes: The Shame of Sexual Assault
I want to say this is the first time I’ve heard a sexual assault story, but it isn’t.
Sometimes, It’s the Small Privileges That Make a Big Difference
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First world countries produce most of the world’s waste. Third world countries in the global south pay the price for it.
A Woman’s Work Is Never Paid
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Power Struggling: A New Column on the Dynamics of Inequality
Coming in December: a weekly column about the everyday reality of living in an unequal system.