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A recent New York Times column suggests we have no choice but to ignore or excise racist imagery in children’s books. But Jeremy Adam Smith offers another way, guided by research.
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Today's post comes from educator David Chura, author of I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup. He has worked with at-risk teenagers for the past 40 years. For 26 of those years, he taught English and creative writing in community based alternative schools and in a county penitentiary. His…
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Part three of an eight-part series of interviews with Michael Bronski about the A Queer History of the United States, this year’s Lambda Literary Award winner for LGBT Nonfiction.
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Today's post is from Aaron Bobrow-Strain, is associate professor of politics at Whitman College in Washington and the author of White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf. He writes and teaches on the politics of the global food system. In a 1974 New York Times column, the great Craig Claiborne offered the following…
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For Father’s Day, Jeremy Adam Smith talks about the changes we need to make to support fathers and families.
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Michael Bronski talks about the terms Europeans applied–erroneously and pejoratively–to the Two-Spirit Native Americans they encountered.
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A new article from a famed expert in child development outlines that what really matters to kids is the relationships with their parents and caregivers, not the number or gender of same.
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In this first of a series of podcasts, Michael Bronski discusses A Queer History of the United States, and how his approach to history looks at American through a queer lens.
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CeCe McDonald faces sentencing today. Joey Mogul looks at her case and why the court should take her self-defense claims seriously.
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It’s time for the Supreme Court to hear a case that challenges the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
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