https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6 My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do. -Ani DiFranco en-us 2021-09-27 16:13:24 UTC 2021-11-30 15:42:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1371852011/aab2db7a0d9b36063f872ff11be3e149/download.jpg kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1771805147 To save the galaxy was a privilege once afforded to mainly white audiences, and Star Wars enabled it for decades. Now that the franchise has opened to other kinds of people, theses so-called “real” fans just can’t deal. Taking on names like The Fandom Menace, these fans push back at the inclusivity new Star Wars content includes. And instead of trying to join these mostly white male spaces, fans of the franchises are making their own spaces and rightfully so.]]> 2021-09-27 16:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1771805147 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1771812820 STEM has been a field dominated by men, as even as little as 50 years ago people still believed that men were better suited for jobs because of their biology.]]> 2021-09-27 16:44:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1771812820 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1771819502 A new trend on TikTok has women creators comparing old photographs with their current style. They share initial pictures in line with that of the male gaze when they felt they were dressing to please men, and then frame current styles as those that break from that and they dress to please themselves.]]> 2021-09-27 16:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1771819502 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1871632467 A white 17 year old is on trial after he crossed state lines to shoot and ultimately kill BLM protesters. Many people assume he will not be convicted, and it's hard to imagine this being the case if roles were reversed and this young man was black.]]> 2021-11-06 14:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1871632467 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1871638803 With her child's permission, Busy Phillips is using her platform to talk about parenting her gay, non-binary child. Busy is helping to rid the stigma her child faces, as well as being open and honest about how she isn't a perfect parent, but is doing what parents to all children should do, try their best.]]> 2021-11-06 14:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1871638803 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1871642413 The Mandalorian actress, Gina Carano, mocked putting pronouns in twitter bios, and doubled down even after her costar, Pedro Pascal, explained them to her. Pascal has a trans sister, Lux Pascal. Carano was eventually fired from The Mandalorian after comparing having to wear a mask to the holocaust.]]> 2021-11-06 14:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1871642413 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1871645737 Texas banned abortion at 6 weeks, which is before most women even know they are pregnant. And offered $10,000 bounties for information on women who received an abortion and their medical provider.]]> 2021-11-06 15:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1871645737 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1871650333 Harry Styles debuted as the first-ever male cover star of Vogue and donned a dress for the occasion. Immediately it started conversations around masculinity and gendered dressing, with Candace Owens tweeting, "Bring Back Manly Men." But what defines manly? Why can't men embrace both the masculine and feminine?]]> 2021-11-06 15:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1871650333 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1876940858 The average white family today has about ten times the amount of wealth as the average Black family. If we are going to make "the American Dream" a reality for all Americans the U.S. government that denied wealth to Black Americans needs to correct that current disparity through reparations to their descendants in the form of individual cash payments.]]> 2021-11-09 02:19:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1876940858 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1876954758 The Kardashian sisters have a long history of appropriating black women, but to really understand why this is an issue you have to understand that Black women and their bodies have been exploited and degraded for centuries. The Kardashian's white privilege allows them to adopt Black aesthetics without having the lived experience of a Black woman.  “There’s a reason why they’ve done this and why they have made money on this,” Ayanna Thompson says. “That’s the ultimate power of whiteness, right? That I can like these things, which we may want to denigrate, but I don’t have to stay there. I get to come back to the safety of whiteness.”]]> 2021-11-09 02:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1876954758 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1876961344 Violent attacks and harassment toward Asian Americans have increased since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anti-Asian racism isn't new. Centuries of anti-Asian racism in the United States have led to this moment, such as the internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2. This violence however is partly attributed to xenophobic rhetoric that connects the COVID-19 pandemic with Asian Americans, including the blaming of the virus on China by former President Donald Trump.]]> 2021-11-09 02:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1876961344 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1879022463 When Pete Buttigieg took paternity leave to care for his newborn twins with husband Chasten, the internet exploded. "Paternity leave, they call it," Carlson said, "trying to learn how to breastfeed. No word on how that went." It's truly shocking the number of men who mocked a man for caring for his children, as they are so clearly outing themselves as clueless fathers, who must have left the work of caring for their children entirely up to the mothers. ]]> 2021-11-09 17:41:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1879022463 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1879026587 The search for the 22-year-old white woman, Gabby Petito, became an internet sensation and a lead story for major news outlets, while the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Native American women doesn't get the attention paid to Gabby Petito.
Media coverage of homicides of indigenous people is more likely to use violent language and portray the victim in negative light. Homicide is the third-leading cause of death among Native women who are murdered at rates more than 10 times the national average.]]> 2021-11-09 17:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1879026587 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1881358632 Robert Aaron Long is accused of killing eight people in the shootings, six of whom are of Asian descent, that took place on March 16 in Atlanta and Cherokee County, Georgia. In initial interviews with investigators, Long claimed to have a "sex addiction." Authorities said he allegedly lashed out at the spa businesses that he viewed as a sexual temptation. This was violent crime against women, but also specifically a hate crime against Asian women, who long have dealt with being hypersexualized.]]> 2021-11-10 14:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1881358632 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1881370700 The Equal Rights Amendment has not been added to the Constitution—even though it passed both houses of Congress by a 9–1 margin in 1972, far more than the needed two-thirds majority. A federal judge on recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by three Democratic state attorneys general that had sought to force the federal government to recognize Virginia’s vote last year to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and add it to the Constitution. Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the amendment that supporters say will guarantee women equal rights under the law. Constitutional amendments must be ratified by three-quarters of the states, or 38, but Congress enacted a ratification deadline for the ERA that passed decades ago.]]> 2021-11-10 14:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1881370700 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1894513869 On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was fatally shot while jogging in a residential are near Brunswick, Georgia. Arbery had been pursued by three white residents, Travis McMichael and his father Gregory, who were armed and driving a pickup truck, and William "Roddie" Bryan, who followed Arbery in a second vehicle. As Arbery ran to the left in front of the pickup truck, he was confronted and shot by Travis McMichael because they believed he could be responsible for break ins in the and they were "startled" by his presence in the neighborhood. It took 74 days for Arbery's killers to be arrested, and only after a video of the shooting was released online. ]]> 2021-11-16 15:47:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1894513869 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1894520890 Two actresses, Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, are at the center of the college admissions scandal, where wealthy parents are alleged to have paid millions of dollars to have their children's test scores and athletic achievements falsified to get them into elite colleges such as Yale University and the University of Southern California.]]> 2021-11-16 15:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1894520890 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1903874440 Britt Dorton lives with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a hereditary degenerative disorder that affects her connective tissue, and complex regional pain syndrome, or CRPS, an acquired chronic nerve pain disorder. She breaks down how much living with disability costs, and how expensive it is just to exist.]]> 2021-11-20 22:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1903874440 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1906621091 When Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Sept. 18, 2020 at 87, then President Trump’s promised to name a woman to replace her. But women aren't that interchangeable. And Justice Ginsburg's replacement, Amy Comey Barrett, does not support the causes at the heart of the long, continuing march for gender equality that Justice Ginsburg championed.]]> 2021-11-22 17:14:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1906621091 kristinthiel https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1907232890 Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling came under fire in early June 2020 for controversial tweets she posted about the transgender community. Rowling went on to write a lengthy statement on her website continuing to use trans-exclusionary language and further alienating her fans.]]> 2021-11-23 00:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinthiel/is203utl0t0j5ea6/wish/1907232890