The ever-changing political climate of American has shaped the journey of women’s reproductive rights through our legal system. From the moderate Republicanism of the 70s when Roe v. Wade was decided, to the neo-conservatism of the 80s and 90s, the court’s attitude towards women’s rights has shifted along side. Now, at a time of “us versus them” identity politics, […]
This Week in Racism, Sikh American designer and actor Waris Ahluwalia was stopped from boarding his Aeromexico flight from Mexico City to New York because he wears a turban. Well….not exactly. The media is spinning the story like Aeromexico doesn’t allow turbans on their planes. In fact, he was asked at the gate to remove his […]
It’s in vogue for many of Donald Trump’s “haters” to compare the man to a modern-day Hitler. Whether it’s because of his inflammatory rhetoric—that he supports a database of refugees to monitor them, thinks Mexicans as rapists who will pay for a border wall to keep themselves out, tweeted a meme that black people kill each other a lot, and utters a plethora of shameful comments to and about […]
Robert Lanham, the author of The Sinner’s Guide to the Evangelical Right, once believed in god. Raised by ultra-conservative Evangelical parents (his mother is a permanent a housewife, believing that women should not hold positions of power) in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, he was a believer up until that fateful time where temptation lurks […]
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