For 2009, IBARW will take place between July 27 to August 2

I don't post frequently enough to feel like I can "officially" participate, but I'll see what I can do.

because they have a historical record for impartiality, unlike those wily latinas…


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Native brothers and sisters in their finery and NOT as a backdrop to a white love story/coming-of-age story/colonizer fantasy? WIN.


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X-posted from deadbrowalking

Let's make it really clear, people. If you identify as a POC/nonwhite person and you read or watch scifi or fantasy,
give yourself a name check in this thread. I am particularly wanting shoutouts from people who do not live in the US and who have still managed to read genre fiction ( Read more... )

A new experimental program at a nonconventional “lifestyle medicine” center is targeting pregnant women who are Black and Hispanic minority, poor and fat. These women are being enrolled into a free health program which tells them it will benefit them and their unborn babies and make their babies healthier ( Read more... )

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Native American Boarding Schools Haunt Many
by Charla Bear

Listen Now

Morning Edition, May 12, 2008For the government, it was a possible solution to the so-called Indian problem. For the tens of thousands of Indians who went to boarding schools, it's largely remembered as a time of abuse and desecration of culture ( Read more... )

None of the Above
What I.Q. doesn’t tell you about race.
by Malcolm GladwellOne Saturday in November of 1984, James Flynn, a social scientist at the University of Otago, in New Zealand, received a large package in the mail. It was from a colleague in Utrecht, and it contained the results of I.Q. tests given to two generations of Dutch eighteen-year ( Read more... )