While these studies were overhyped by much of the commentariat (correlation doesn't equal causation, folks!), this study does seem to suggest that people who watch a ton of porn experience less pleasure in the rest of their lives.
Big nod to equal rights here folks.
More than 700 folks (equal number of blacks and whites) gathered to engage the conversation.
Until trans people are seen as equal to cis folks, misgendering, via pronoun or presentation, will continue to be an act of transphobia and an act of violence.
Melody 1963, which begins streaming Friday on Amazon Prime, tells the story of a 10-year-old Detroit girl who has just been slapped with the ugly truth that a hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, much of America still didn't want to give black folks equal opportunity.
"We didn't get civil rights legislation because [former South Carolina senator] Strom Thurmond sat there and said, 'OK, yeah, I'm gonna do that, I'm gonna give equal rights to folks.' No, it was Americans demanding it, fighting for it, getting up every single day".
If the integrative approach I'm proposing seems radical — and I would argue for a pretty radical version, in some cases placing almost equal numbers of folk and academic works in shared galleries — precedents for it exist.
Her painted patchworks fuse the African-American quilting tradition and Western narrative painting to make illustrated accounts -- historical, fictional or based on her own experience -- in a direct, accessible style that draws equal inspiration from folk art and Matisse.
So eventually I told my boss that one of two things needed to happen for us to even begin creating an inclusive space for people of color with the organization: 1) Hire at least one person of color who was of equal position to white folks within the organization, or 2) give me a new title so that I, as a person of color, would be of equal standing to others in the organization.
"Yesterday at the Statehouse, everyone was talking about the images they had seen in Wisconsin, and it gave them great heart and made folks determined to equal that effort".
