Months ago, I witnessed a Black man attempting to censor a Black woman’s writing. He told her there was no need to write a “divisive” piece because he’s already speaking up for Black women. What this ...
The media, doing its usual bang-up job, is framing Donald Trump’s 1.5-point win as a landslide, and making it to be the result of Black and Latino voters abandoning Democrats. What they’re trying to ...
East Elmhurst, L.I.: To my knowledge, this case that earned Donald Trump 34 guilty verdicts had nothing to do with race or ethnicity. Nevertheless, much of MAGA’s motives, in my opinion, has to do ...
And, I also confess, while my awareness of white male privilege has emerged slowly over the years, there has risen my own recognition that I— and my ilk— represent and promote the power imbalance ...
As it’s used today, the term “privilege” was popularized as a means to describe inequality by women’s studies scholar Peggy McIntosh. In a 1988 essay, she listed 50 claimed examples of white and male ...
This episode was originally published on August 11th, 2018. Privilege comes in many forms: socio-economic privilege, gender privilege, heterosexual privilege, to name a few. But behind every case is ...
I recently had a conversation with some of my students about issues of misogyny, male privilege, and the #MeToo movement. We spoke about the male gaze (i.e., the action of visually objectifying women ...
ST. LOUIS — What does accountability look like in a world where no one is accountable? I recently attended an artist talk by Kelley Walker, a New York-based artist who has had an illustrious career, ...