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Jack Turner discussed this article on Black Agenda Radio: "the #Grenada revolution could inspire a more transnational Black revolutionary presence within the western hemisphere, and as a result became a deep threat to the US State" blackagendareport.com/audre-lordes-r…
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We filed an amicus brief on behalf of @brandeiscenter and @svcaf2020 in the #Harvard case asking the @USSupremeCourt to take the case. The discrimination against #AsianAmericans in admissions is no different than the discrimination against #Jewish applicants in the 1920s & 1930s.
“What happened to Jewish applicants in the 1920s and 1930s at Harvard is happening all over again to Asian-American applicants today. . . . As with the Jewish students of the past, Asian-American students became too plentiful for Harvard.”
“In the 1920s & 1930s, Harvard’s method of reducing its number of Jews was its 'character and fitness' rationale. [It] maintained that it simply sought students of sufficient character . . . and Jews generally did not meet that standard.”
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It would be too easy for your period to just sabotage your pelvic region. Way too easy. Because having female hormones often feels like being on a roller coaster from hell, your menstrual cycle can also wreak havoc on your boobs. Breast pain pre-period is extremely normal...
if not incredibly unfair. Here's everything you need to know about that fun time of the month when your breasts double in size and feel like they were pummeled by a power drill.
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Why Your Breasts Feel Like Sandbags👇🏻
After ovulation — which happens about midway through your menstrual cycle, or two weeks after your period — the hormone progesterone starts to rise. Around day 21 of a standard, 28-day cycle, progesterone peaks, and as Rebecca Brightman, an ob-gyn in New York City explains,
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Ooh baby let’s break some of this down. What affirmative action and diversity & inclusion programs (flawed as some were/are) reveal is the lie of American #meritocracy & #bootstrapism.
Affirmative action & diversity programs have repeatedly sought out women, people of color & increasingly queer & disabled people for opportunities for which they are qualified. These programs consider experiences of oppression an important perspective these folks bring.
Further, when these programs occur in early education settings smart, creative & otherwise talented marginalized kids get to have their interests & skills nurtured in ways their families may not be able to provide either financially or bc of lack of awareness of such programs.
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