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Links This Week
Debbie says: This is only the beginning of a wonderful comic from Gallery of Dangerous Women … Cuteosphere, the cartoonist, says: it always disappointed me that Monster Girls are an anime porn thing...
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Natural Hair vs. Military Regulations
Laurie and Debbie say: Since the forthcoming military regulations on hairstyle and grooming were leaked in March, we’ve seen a lot of discussion of the hairstyle limitations for women, and especially...
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Sojourner Truth: I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Laurie says: I was listening to a Nell Painter video that Ta-Nehisi Coates linked to, talking about, among other things, her book The History of White People. I just finished the book, and it’s...
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Debbie says: First we had website problems, then I was not collecting links, but now we’re back on track. I love these “end the awkward” ads from Scope: About Disability, a British organization. If you...
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Ansel Adams: Photographs Of The Manzanar Relocation Center
Laurie says: Ansel Adams is known as a magnificent 20th century photographer of black and white of landscapes of the West. But he said that “from a social point of view,” his Manzanar photos were the...
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Links Return Again
It would be great if this image of Karlesha Thurman had gone viral for better reasons (like because it’s beautiful) … Thurman posted this photo on the Black Women Do Breastfeed Facebook page. Although...
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Julian Dimock: Photographs Of African-Americans – South Carolina 1905
Laurie says: This extraordinary collection of Dimock’s work has recently been put on line by The Museum of Natural History. Given the obvious quality of the work on line, I’m hoping sometime to have a...
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Racecraft: A Must-Read Book
Laurie and Debbie say: Laurie found the book Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields) through an interview with Barbara Fields conducted by...
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Black Dolls: Trapped in the Tangles of Racism
Debbie says: Alexandra Brodsky at Feministing points to a superb piece in the Paris Review, Addy Walker, American Girl by Brit Bennett. For seventeen years, Addy was the only black historical doll; she...
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100 Women Photographers From The African Diaspora.
https://laurietobyedison.com/body-impolitic-blog/category/race-and-racism/feed"> Laurie says, A new biannual journal, MFON, features 100 women photographers from across the African diaspora. The...
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