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Race and Gender



Our race and gender are frequently two of the most public aspects of our identities, and they can intersect in complex and unique ways that can be ignored, misunderstood, or even weaponized by those even of the same race or gender. And as we move through communities that privilege and prioritize certain identity combinations over others, we can feel pressure to internally downplay or deny one aspect of our identity in favor of another. It can be hard to experience wholeness when we feel we can’t allow ourselves full expression, recognition, or appreciation of any part of our identity. Recognizing it when it happens and discovering the vocabulary to discuss it can be key to living in authenticity.

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Intersectionality - A Look At Race, Gender & Class

We take a look at how one's race, gender and class can have significant effects on how one is shaped and treated by society.

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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

"When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news," writes bell hooks. "If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse." In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the first page.

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What Holds You Back?

It’s been challenging for me to witness the victim mentality that’s become popular in mainstream narratives. I’m a woman, person of color, and daughter of immigrants. I don’t perceive myself as a victim.

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How Race and Gender Reinforce Economic Inequality

Prof. Marlene Kim says her research has revealed that African-American women face triple penalties from race and gender bias, and the combination of those two.

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Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris.

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I’m Reconciling My Culture’s Worst Attributes to Raise a Feminist Son

Irina Gonzalez is teaching her son to embrace the beauty and diversity that exists within the Latinx community, not the stereotypes she was exposed to in her own childhood.

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BIPOC Girls and GNC Youth Tell Their Stories | Our Stories: In Vivid Color | Official Trailer

Our Stories: In Vivid Color is a multimedia initiative to amplify the lived experiences and dreams of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) women, girls and gender non-conforming youth, ages 14–24, across the United States and Puerto Rico.

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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot

Today’s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women.

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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country.

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The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table

From microaggressions to the wage gap, The Memo empowers women of color with actionable advice on challenges and offers a clear path to success. Most business books provide a one-size-fits-all approach to career advice that overlooks the unique barriers that women of color face.

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