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Top political strategist Maya Rupert reveals how, for people of color, being real comes at a cost and authenticity is a privilege the marginalized cannot afford—that is, unless we change the system that keeps sending us the bill. . . One of Maya Rupert’s earliest memories was learning how to...

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Per la prima volta un ex fabbricante di armi, che nella sua carriera ha progettato e venduto due milioni e mezzo di mine antiuomo, racconta senza reticenze le due vite che ha vissuto: da fabbricante di strumenti bellici a operatore umanitario. È la storia vera di Vito Alfieri Fontana che per oltre vent’anni, alla guida dell’azienda di famiglia, ha progettato e prodotto mine vendendole in diversi Paesi del mondo.

An archive of collective memory and exuberant testimony A luminous map to navigate an opaque and disorienting present An infinite geography of possible futures What does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of...

Un llamamiento a la unidad frente a la fragmentación promovida por el actual activismo o cómo el neoliberalismo fragmentó la identidad de la clase trabajadora....

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. In America in 2010, Glenn Beck provides the very refreshment Jefferson had in mind: Whether he's the patriot or the tyrant, he's definitely full of manure.

Hun har selv været en del af det aktivistiske miljø, der med radikale metoder kæmper for minoriteters synlighed. I dag ser hun mere kritisk på de holdninger, som hun automatisk indtog, og de aktiviteter hun i retfærdighedens navn deltog i. Med humor og med alvor fører Aminata læseren ind i det tankesæt, der de senere år har fået Det Kongelige Teater til at indføre selvcensur, fået DR til at nedsætte et kvotemangfoldighedsteam, og Kunstakademiet til at kaste kunstnerisk frihed i havnen.

Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism… and a bracing manifesto for revolution. Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed...