May 2012
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Heck Yeah Karen Healey: Why I Write Diversity... →
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“Speaking of my own intentions, I’m not attempting representation of characters who help display the actual diversity of the world so that people will be nice to me. I’m not including discussions of -isms because I expect my readers to respond, “Oh, she has successfully ticked off the -ism list and is therefore shielded from all criticism upon those grounds!”
Because one, lolno, and...
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How America's current racial caste system works
After reading The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, I worked with Anne Rhodes to create this infographic. Massive as it is, it’s still just a fraction of the data she presents.
In many ways, this system is more dangerous than slavery or segregation. We need to end the idea that our nation is colorblind - it isn’t, and hopefully never will be - because racial indifference, not...
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I am not capable of grammatical errors. Any “typo” reflects my emotional state...
– (via clientsfromhell)