September 1, 2016 By Angelica Walker Over the past year, more than 100 residents have been forced to move out of the Penn Plaza Apartments, one of the few affordable housing options […]
Profit Over People: Whole Foods Replaces Affordable Housing
White People “Offset their Privilege” with Gifts and Services on Reparations Website
August 8, 2016 Angelica Walker When a United Nations panel of experts recommended the US government pay out cash reparations for slavery last February, most saw it as a pie-in-the-sky idea. Even […]
Pennsylvania Begins Covering Gender Transition Care Under Medicaid
July 30, 2016 By Angelica Walker Last week, Pennsylvania became the twelfth state to explicitly cover gender transition-related care in their Medicaid program. This exciting policy change marks a huge step in […]
Monogamy Isn’t For Everyone
July 19, 2016 By Angelica Walker Imagine this: after months of trying, you’re finally pregnant with your second child. You’re ecstatic, but when you tell your four-year-old daughter, she’s terrified. Your daughter […]
TERFs are the Worst: An Intro to Anti-Trans Feminism
July 13, 2016 By Angelica Walker Feminism is one of the largest social movements in the world. Naturally, because of its scale, it is also one of the most problematic. Since the […]
Black Success Matters: How Affirmative Action Creates Equality
July 6, 2016 By Angelica Walker When I first realized that I had earned a full scholarship to my first-choice college, I wanted to tell everybody. As a black woman who grew […]
4 in 10 Whites Think Racism is Over – Now What?
July 6, 2016 By Angelica Walker Over the past 50 years, America has slowly cycled through phases of socially accepted public racism, to behind-closed-doors racism, and then back again. After a decade […]
There’s More to Ending Racism than “Unity”
July 5, 2016 By Angelica Walker “What we need is unity. The only race I belong to is the human race!” said the white man. Acknowledge that as you ask us to […]
Pride is Political: Roots Pride Celebrates Diversity
July 2, 2016 By Angelica Walker *The following article is an expansion of a post previously published online here* What would you do for freedom? That was the theme of 2016’s Roots […]
Nowhere to Turn: The Terrors of Sexual Assault in the Military
June 16, 2016 By Angelica Walker What do you do when you’re sexually assaulted and want to seek justice, but your only option is reporting it to the person that assaulted it […]
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