Gender, Race, Power and The Beguiled
Gender, Race, Power and The Beguiled
Gender, Race, Power and The Beguiled
Gender Equity Among Conference Speakers
Storify is closing and over the coming weeks, I will be migrating my posts to my blog. This is an archive of my article first published on Storify on 7 March 2017. Having recently created two issues of gender inequity, March for Science made their third foray into inappropriate gennder commentary less than a week … Continue reading March for Science: Reproducing Inequality
Storify is closing and over the coming weeks, I will be migrating my posts to my blog. This is an archive of my article first published on Storify on 23 February 2017. On 23 February 2017, the March for Science DC Twitter account attempted a discussion on an important equity and diversity issue: the gender … Continue reading March for Science: Gender Equity and Diversity
Actress Natalie Portman is the latest White woman celebrity to talk about the gender pay gap in ways that demonstrate tunnel vision on the intersections between racism and gender inequity. From Patricia Arquette’s highly misguided attempt to discuss the wage disparity during her 2015 Oscars speech, to Jennifer Lawrence’s essay calling for equal pay, White actresses have … Continue reading The Gender Pay Gap and Race
Sex & Gender Beyond the Binary
Sociologist Leah Ruppanner: “When weighed together, full-time working women spend 6.4 hours more per week working…
“Ethnic Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies bring unique analytical lenses to academic study that help us understand how race, gender, sexuality, and other forms of difference shape individual and group experiences. They help us examine social institutions and the roles these institutions play in maintaining social inequality. And these academic disciplines also help … Continue reading Ethnic and Gender Studies
Gender Bias in Science Hiring
This article was first published on Medium, 2 April 2015. Warning: analysis and spoilers for seasons 1 to 5. Like millions of fans around the world, I love The Walking Dead, and I’m an avid horror aficionado. Yet after five seasons, with breathtaking plot twists and turns, The Walking Dead’s treatment of gender, race and sexuality … Continue reading The Walking Dead: Gender, Race and Sexuality