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Recommended Reading:
Esther: Boston Magazine's Heart-Shaped Shoes: The Story Behind the Beautiful Cover [Content Note: The post at this link contains discussion of the terrorist attack in Boston.]
Erik: Workplace Safety and the Gilded Age Theory of Risk [Content Note: The post at this link contains discussion of the building collapse in Bangladesh, worker safety, and corporate malfeasance.]
Alexis: Black Female Lawmakers Walk out of Florida House over Racial Arguments Made for Abortion Bill [Content Note: The post at this link includes discussion of hostility to agency, race-baiting, and racial appropriation.]
Indian Homemaker: Panchayat Orders Girl to Marry Her Rapist [Content Note: The post at this link includes discussion of sexual violence and rape culture, including legal marital rape and retributive rape.]
Jorge: Two Women Shot at by LAPD During Dorner Manhunt Settle for $4.2 Million [Content Note: The post at this link includes discussion of gun violence and police malfeasance.]
Tressie: Race and Grad School, Redux [Content Note: The post at this link contains discussion of racism and classism.]
BYP: The League of Young Voters Launch #NoGunsAllowed Campaign [Content Note: The post at this link contains discussion of gun violence.]
Brian: On Fat Suits, Privilege, and Oppression [Content Note: The post at this link contains discussion of fat bias, racial appropriation, and hunger—unavoidable and self-imposed.]
Annalee: Whitewashing? KHAAAAN! [Content Note: The post at this link includes discussion of racism and whitewashing.]
Trudy: On Patricia Hill Collins' observation that "African-American women's oppression has encompassed three interdependent dimensions." [Content Note: The post at this link includes discussion of racism, misogyny, classism, and exploitation.]
Ana: Tropes: My Wife Left Me [Content Note: The post at this link contains discussion of misogyny and gender essentialism.]
Finally: Heads-up, Atlanta Shakers! There's a grassroots fundraiser for the Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition today!
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