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(Undated photo of African-American boys taken during enslavement or at time of emancipation, owned by Keya Morgan)A recently purchased photograph of two African-American boys allegedly taken around the time of slave emancipation in this country has cap…
I am a feminist. By this I mean I speak out against a socially constructed system of dominance where what is identified as male in our society (a cultural construct, not the biology itself) is systematically and institutionally advantaged over that whi…
In honor of the holiday, here’s a collection this week of what I’ve gleaned from I Can Has Cheezburger efforts. There’s a political bent to this assemblage, with only one actual cat in these “LOLCats”. And the first one on this page is my own effort.
Jill Cozzi’s post at Brilliant at Breakfast acted as a final spark for me today. In “So Long [Gulf of Mexico], And Thanks For All The Fish”, she begins:I hope you all have had a chance to enjoy a tropical beach at least once in your life, because the d…
The O’odham Solidarity Across Borders Collective, whose members participated last Friday’s occupation of Arizona Border Patrol Headquarters, have released a video of their action.The O’odham Solidarty Across Borders Collective is made up of “Akimel O’o…
…that will make you grin, at the very least.From Bird Lovers Only:From TremendousNews:From Amphibian Avenger:Meet the sloths from Amphibian Avenger on Vimeo.
Graphic by Adam Nieman / Photo Researchers, IncFrom Cool Infographics:Global water and air volume. Conceptual computer artwork of the total volume of water on Earth (left) and of air in the Earth’s atmosphere (right) shown as spheres (blue and pink). T…
Breaking from Occupy California:”Reports are coming in that the Border Patrol Headquarters at the Davis Monthan Air Force Base has been occupied and locked-down as of 1:15pm today by 16 members of a First Nations Indigenous Peoples’ group in oppositi…
(American Able image created by Holly Norris and Jes Sachse)”‘American Able’ intends to, through spoof, reveal the ways in which women with disabilities are invisibilized in advertising and mass media…Too often, the pervasive influence of imagery in …
During the young years of their marriage, my parents moved often to small towns all over Texas and Louisiana, following my father’s job. They had some money then, driving a late-model Chevy and using their vacation time to journey even more, visiting f…
