There is no freedom under capitalism, white supremacy, and cisheteropatriarchy. If none of this pushes you further left, then what will? If last night’s political theater didn’t push you further to the left, then I don’t know what will. If it wasn’t the complete and utter lack of policy proposals, if it wasn’t the attempts...
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News Round-Up: NYPD Forgot To Take Their Lactaid and Framed Their Diarrhea as a Poisoning
NYPD tried to blame their sensitive stomachs on Shake Shack employees poisoning them, Mercury in microbraids begins this week and more headlines from today. By Clarkisha Kent Even in the midst of a global pandemic and the fight of and for our [Black-ass] lives, the world continues to spin. Bombarding us at every which way...
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The PPP: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Aren’t Getting Small Business Loans
The way that the government built the PPP is just the latest version of ensuring that those who will be killed by COVID-19 or deep poverty will be BIPOC. By Lara Witt It shouldn’t have been surprising that the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) rollout was and is a goddamn mess. At least $500 million of...
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Sexual Assault And White Supremacy Are Foundational To The U.S.
Rape legislation, historically, has acted as an extension of white supremacy, never as a real means to afford protection to women subjected to sexual coercion. TW/CW: this article discusses sexual assault and anti-Blackness On March 25, Tara Reade provided an excruciating account of her sexual assault at the hand of former Vice President Joseph R....
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Liberalism Demands That Victims Vote For More Rape Culture
Instead of obliterating the system under which a man can be a rapist and still vie for the presidency, liberalism demands victims ignore our trauma for their gains. TW: This essay mentions r/pe and sexual assault, racism, and death. With COVID-19 just barely beginning to make its mark in the U.S., it feels like the...
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The Deal of the Century Is an Act of Violence Against Palestinians
The U.S. government is using a “peace” plan to validate the Israeli right wing’s plans to cement their control over Palestinians for decades to come. In a CNN interview, Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor and son-in-law to President Trump, describes the so-called “Deal of the Century” as an opportunity to Palestinians. He says to reject this...
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White Feminists Built a Narrative of Innocence To Mask Their Racism
The violence of white feminists relies on the carefully constructed myth of white womanhood’s innocence, purity, and righteousness. An important yet overlooked scene of the 2004 movie, Iron Jawed Angels, was the disservice of Ida B. Wells (Adilah Barnes) at the hands of suffragette, Alice Paul (Hilary Swank), who asks Wells to march at the...
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No, Hillary, We Don’t Like YOU
Hillary may want to pull out some of the hot sauce from her bag to add some flavor to her unseasoned critiques of Bernie Sanders. The year is 2016 and—oh wait no! It’s 2020 and Hillary Clinton is still subjecting me (yes I feel personally attacked) to her lukewarm takes and what I suppose she...
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‘Bombshell’ Fails to Paint White Women As Leaders of the Resistance
t’s ludicrous for Bombshell to position any of these women as champions against workplace sexual harassment when their racism simply shifts that violence against Black and brown women. CW: Discussions of workplace sexual violence I knew exactly what I was in for the moment I sat down for my screening of Bombshell (dir. Jay Roach)...
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When Is Humor an Appropriate Response to Societal Turmoil?
The following reasons are what makes the humor and many of these jokes about World War III—and by extension Iran—unearned and in extremely poor taste. On Election night in 2016, I drank myself to sleep. Not because I was depressed, but because what I predicted, what people (including my own family) had argued me down...