Category: Social Stream
👓 Even in the Senate, 2018 looks like other wave years for Democrats | CNN
Some Republicans will argue that 2018 wasn't a wave for Democrats because they expanded their Senate majority.
🎧 Episode 45: Transformation (Seeing White, Part 14) | Scene on Radio
The concluding episode in our series, Seeing White. An exploration of solutions and responses to America’s deep history of white supremacy by host John Biewen, with Chenjerai Kumanyika, Robin DiAngelo, and William “Sandy” Darity, Jr.
We really need a lot more ways for people to become engaged and help to fix these issues.
👓 For the love of the blog | Ben Holliday
Ending my experiment with blogging more on Medium.
👓 How Google and Amazon Got So Big Without Being Regulated | WIRED
Internet companies used to grow big and die—fast. But now a few of them are huge and entrenched, because regulators didn't foresee their dominance.
📑 How Google and Amazon Got So Big Without Being Regulated | Wired
📑 How Google and Amazon Got So Big Without Being Regulated | Wired
Sounds like a guy who is winning all of the spoils.
📑 How Google and Amazon Got So Big Without Being Regulated | Wired
📑 How Google and Amazon Got So Big Without Being Regulated | Wired
👓 CNN sues Trump to get Jim Acosta’s press pass restored | POLITICO
The lawsuit marks a stark escalation in the president's feud with the media.
👓 Florida and Georgia: the super-tight midterm elections, explained | Vox
Where things stand as votes continue to be counted — and recounted — in three major statewide races now that Arizona has been called.
👓 Voting Laws Roundup 2018 | Brennan Center for Justice
Voting legislation continues to be a subject of state legislators’ attention. So far in 2018, lawmakers have introduced bills to restrict voting in eight states. But all of them, as well as 14 other states, are considering laws that would expand access to the polls.
👓 Peggy McIntosh | Wikipedia
Peggy McIntosh (born November 7, 1934) is an American feminist, anti-racism activist, scholar, speaker, and Senior Research Associate of the Wellesley Centers for Women. She is the founder of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity). She and Emily Style co-directed SEED for its first twenty-five years. She has written on curricular revision, feelings of fraudulence, and professional development of teachers. In 1988, she published the article "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies".[2] This analysis, and its shorter version, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (1989), pioneered putting the dimension of privilege into discussions of power, gender, race, class and sexuality in the United States. Both papers rely on personal examples of unearned advantage that McIntosh says she experienced in her lifetime, especially from 1970 to 1988. McIntosh encourages individuals to reflect on and recognize their own unearned advantages and disadvantages as parts of immense and overlapping systems of power. She has been criticized for concealing her considerable, personal class privilege and displacing it onto the collective category of race.
Definitely want to read her Invisible Knapsack work.
Interesting mention:
With Dr. Nancy Hill, McIntosh co-founded the Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute, which, for thirty-five years, annually gave “money and a room of one’s own” to ten women who were not supported by other institutions and were working on projects in the arts and many other fields.
Another example of Virginia Woolf’s idea being put into practice in the wild. (I added a link to the Wikipedia page to make it more obvious.)