Especially when Republicans of 2018 are advocating genocide. Since Barack Obama’s election to Office of the President of the United States in November 2008, Tea-Party-ideologies have emerged and taken increasingly tight control of the Republican Party and its affiliates. Republicans… Read More ›
In ways, this seems silly. In larger perspectives of the barrage of horrid occurrences in the world of 2018, the significance is nil. However, society perpetuates oppression–especially, for purposes here, of the microaggression variety–and gives people little choice about how… Read More ›
Who has the necessary authority to speak about a given topic or identity? What do we miss when trying to learn about Otherness (see “Can the Subaltern Speak?”)? Given thousands of years of history, history dominated by an elite often consisting… Read More ›
Football is supreme in the United States. As I (and others) have argued, football is racist. Football is at least also ableist, colonialist, and classist when doing an intersectional analysis. Criticisms of football, whether from your everyday friend or in your… Read More ›
On the meaning of the upside down flag: Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones) in In the Valley of Elah (2007) says: It’s an international distress signal….It means we’re in a whole lot of trouble so come save our asses ’cause we ain’t got… Read More ›
Just because someone with female reproductive organs is pregnant does not mean the fetus will survive until its birth. Approximately, 30 percent (or more) of all pregnancies end in what is called a “spontaneous abortion,” more commonly called a “miscarriage.”… Read More ›
While having lunch at The Picket Fence Restaurant and Gift Shop in Clute, Texas, with my mom today, I was harassed by a (White) middle-aged man and his family for wearing this Pro Equality t-shirt. (I think it’s worth noting that… Read More ›
