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The bodies of hula performers present a curious problem: they are hypervisible in popular culture while leaving only the faintest traces in archives.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
capability of social media to share important, time-sensitive information.
Moya Bailey • #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
jornalismo de interesse geral que trate os temas femininos com a seriedade mínima que eles merecem,
Naomi Wolf • O mito da beleza: Como as imagens de beleza são usadas contra as mulheres (Portuguese Edition)
Epistemic exploitation was coined by Nora Berenstain in 2016, for instance, to describe the injustice caused when marginalized people are expected to share their knowledge.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
My hair and my lips were not the only part of me that was too much. I had taken on quite a babyish voice a few years earlier, after all of the jokes about how my loudness was so “typical for a black girl”—I didn’t know what that meant, because I was the only black girl at my school, but I knew it wasn’t good. My butt was also too big,
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
Helena Hansen, a psychiatrist and an anthropologist at UCLA who studies racial stereotypes in medicine, told me, “It is woven into the fabric of this country that Black women’s role is to do the work, to do the suffering, so why would we—the mainstream mental-health field—be chasing them down and asking, ‘Can I treat you for your sadness?’”
Rachel Aviv • Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Misogyny does this by visiting hostile or adverse social consequences on a certain (more or less circumscribed) class of girls or women to enforce and police social norms that are gendered either in theory (i.e., content) or in practice (i.e., norm enforcement mechanisms).