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Zanele Muholi’s Transformations – A very interesting prose portrait of a photographer who has become known for her work depicting subjects from black and queer South African communities, and who has undertaken a series of self-portraits, aimed at “tell[ing] the truth” about herself. Her portraits are stunning, provocative, and they clearly communicate the ... more >
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Group of black women kicked off Napa wine train after laughing too loud -What happened to this book club on the Napa Valley Wine Train is pretty much the definition of microaggression. It’s also just plain gross. After some complaints that the eleven women were too “loud,” they were “paraded” off ... more >
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Facebook’s chief product officer apologizes to the LGBTQ community – Facebook CPO Chris Cox penned what appears to be a pretty earnest and humble apology for discriminating against LGBTQ users by flagging their user names as fake. Although Facebook does not require birth names for its users, it does apparently ... more >