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June 10, 2021

Tidbits - June 10, 2021 - Reader Comments: Manchin and the Filibuster; Secret IRS Files; Police Reform; Palestinian Workers; Gender Diversity; Evangelicals and MAGA; Whiteness of Wealth; Art of the Spanish Civil War; Books on Sale; Announcements

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Reader Comments: Manchin and the Filibuster; Secret IRS Files; Police Reform; Palestinian Workers; Gender Diversity; Evangelicals and MAGA; Whiteness of Wealth; Art of the Spanish Civil War; Books on Sale; Announcements; and more...

June 4, 2021

Nearly 10% of Youth in One Urban School District Identify As Gender-diverse, New Study Finds

Kacie Kidd The Conversation

Of 3,168 teens at a Pittsburgh high school, 9.2% had a gender identity that did not fully align with their sex assigned at birth.

May 2, 2021

You Don’t Have a Male or Female Brain – the More Brains Scientists Study, the Weaker the Evidence for Sex Differences

Lise Eliot The Conversation

Brain sex differences are tiny and swamped by the much greater variance in individuals’ brain measures across the population. And the same is true for most behavioral measures.

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March 11, 2021

G&Ts on the Veranda: An Homage to Franz Boas and a Better Anthropology

Francis Gooding London Review of Books

Boas was an outlier in a field that tolerated if not justified white racial superiority over the world’s “lesser” breeds, He and his intellectual successors— largely women-did what scholars and journalists need to do: listen, ask questions, observe.

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February 1, 2021

Film Review: 9to5, The Story of a Movement

Jenny Brown Labor Notes

"9to5: The Story of a Movement" premieres tonight on PBS and then will be available for streaming. The documentary uncovers inspiring and useful history and shows organizing as rewarding, engaging, and joyous.

December 28, 2020

The Activist Roots of Black Feminist Theory

Linda Burnham Organizing Upgrade

What is the wellspring of Black feminist theory? It is important to provide a corrective to the misperception that intersection theory has its genesis in the academy, or, worse still, that it can be attributed to a single discipline...or individual.

December 14, 2020

Why 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’

Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback Economy For All

Neither political party has truly addressed the issue of economic security, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself.

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December 6, 2020

The Agrarian Crisis in Punjab and the Making of the Anti-Farm Law Protests

Shreya Sinha India Forum

The protests in Punjab are happening at a time when the agrarian economy is under stress. With increasing uncertainty, previously antagonistic groups across classes, castes & gender are coming closer, building a broader base for the agitation & beyon

November 8, 2020

AP VoteCast: Trump, Biden Coalitions Show Race, Class Divide

Josh Boak, Hannah Fingerhut AP

The divisions reflected a persistent polarization that appeared to be driven in part by voters’ strong feelings about the provocative president. About two-thirds of all voters said their decision was about Trump — either for or against.

November 5, 2020

The Facebook Group That Could Flip Pennsylvania

Marcia Brown The American Prospect

Boasting more than 120,000 members, it’s one of the largest pro-Biden online communities, and a source of camaraderie and support. Millions of women marched in protest across the country, and never stopped.

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