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Something to model after for the Teaching Diversities project!

CA Marriage Ban Violates Constitution, Court Rules

WOOHOO!! Finally, California gets on board for LGBTQ marriage equality!! Next stop, Supreme Court!

A few days ago, someone from Wesleyan this article about the downsides of single sex higher education institutions. The original post got taken down before I got around to reading it, but from reading the author's apology, I can surmise the stuff that she wrote.

I agree with this article which responded to the Wesleyan article. While Wellesley ( Read more... )

This news on the anti-Asian violence in Philadelphia makes me so frustrated at the glossing over of racist violence by explanations of the marginalized black minority who are resentful of other minorities. Seriously?! There are so many problems with that argument.

1. Just because you had been wronged by other people does not give you the right to ( Read more... )

Buoyed by Wall St. Protests, Rallies Sweep the Globe

NY Times articles on topic of Occupy Melbourne

this is history in the making, guys.

A Wellesley friend, Ariel, forwarded this to me and I totally agree with everything in the trailer. There needs to be more women role models in media and politics.

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a young solider tells his dad that he is gay

Originally posted by darkspirited1 at SIGNAL BOOST: SAY YES TO GAY YA
This comes from an article by rachelmanija entitled, Say Yes to Gay YA.
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Our novel Stranger has five viewpoint characters; one, Yuki Nakamura, is ( Read more... )

Meat Eater's Guide ranks foods by environmental, health effects. Lamb, beef, cheese, and farmed salmon generate the most greenhouse gases of 20 popular meat, fish, dairy and vegetable proteins, according to a new study from the Environmental Working Group. This study looked primarily at the ecological footprint via life cycle analysis based on CO2 ( Read more... )

The weird world of the lesbian hoaxers: Why did a heterosexual, married man pose as a lesbian online on the blog A Gay Girl in Damascus? It's more about power than sexual kicksI can perhaps give benefit of the doubt for these two men mentioned in the article for their higher intentions of giving the oppressed community a voice, but it comes with ( Read more... )