#MomentsInTransition is encouraging transgender people to tweet photos of moments during their transition that made them feel awesome and share what they felt was an important moment in their personal process to become themselves.
We know that women multitask more often than men. A better question is whether women should be proud of their multitasking. Research does have an answer to this question. And the answer is no.
This self-citation gap held true across every major academic field the authors studied, including biology, sociology, philosophy and law. In a footnote, the paper’s authors — three women and two men — dryly note that the pattern holds among themselves as well: …
The discrimination young researchers endure makes America’s need for STEM workers even greater.
“The language we use to talk about racism is obviously distorted, a big clue that something is being hidden. It’s pretty easy to pinpoint the source: most White people can’t handle talking about racism.”
People with disabilities deserve to know that “we’re not just cases, diagnoses, or “not really disabled”; we’re part of a community with its own histories and triumphs. So to help you (and twelve-year-old me) gain a better understanding of disability than “just …
“If patriarchy is fundamentally violent and oppressive, then we have a responsibility to consider the ways that we might be complicit in that violence – simply by living out the patterns of how we were taught to be men.”
“I have come to realize that so many concepts and phrases I believed made me NOT a racist were the things that proved that I am a racist.”
On Friday, Twitter user Matt Edelstein revived the hashtag #WhitePrivilegeMeans (first tweeted in 2014) to educate and call out the ugly realities that people of color deal with every day that white people don’t have to.
“For the grownups, even, there are no simple answers.”
