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Political Exposure: the Breast
© D.A. Clarke It is a blazing hot day in August, still and dusty, asphalt starting to melt in the streets...As you walk down the Mall or along the beach, as you toil up a forest path or weed your yard, shirt plastered to your back with sweat, you see men pass by in...
Finnish People With Things On Their Heads
Almost a year ago I discovered this photo series at Kiasma – The Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki, Finland. Photographers, Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen came up with something truly peculiar and special, in their photo series Eyes As Big As Plates. Their subjects...
WALMART: Employees Fight Back
From Harper's Weekly Review On Black Friday, thousands of Walmart employees and union supporters staged protests to demand annual wages of at least $25,000 for the 825,000 workers who make less than that amount and supplement their incomes with an average of $1,000...
How I Became Miss America
written by Ellen Bass There she is, Burt Parks is singing and I am weeping as her gleaming teeth shine through the wide open window of her mouth. When I grow up, I could be her. Though I can’t dance or sing and the girls fool enough to do dramatic readings never win....
‘Pretty Woman’ Vs. The Real World Of Prostitution
By PHILLIP MARTIN Most charges brought against men who have been arrested in Massachusetts for soliciting prostituted women are dropped, according to findings by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. Two years after the state signed into law an...
Take Action on Birth Control
Birth control coverage is in serious danger and worse, most people haven't even heard about the latest threat. Share this info-graphic. Last week the Supreme Court decided to take on a case that could let employers deny birth control coverage to their employees--a...
We’re Raising Girls Who Hate Their Bodies
Sandra Hawken Diaz VP, Marketing and Communications, Canadian Women's Foundation Every day, our daughters are bombarded with lies. They see these lies everywhere; they are never free of them. They see them on billboards, in TV ads, in movies, in magazines, in video...
Our Invisible Revolution
Published on Monday, October 28, 2013 by TruthDig.com by Chris Hedges An increasing number of Americans are getting it. They know that we have been stripped of political power. They recognize that we have been shorn of our most basic and cherished civil liberties, and...
Participation in a Cultural Activity May Reduce Prejudice
Researchers find that social connections spark interest in another culture and engaging in behaviors associated with that culture may reduce implicit bias. According to new research by Stanford psychologists, people's attitudes toward another racial or ethnic group...