Racial Justice Articles

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4 Reasons Why Calling a Woman of Color ‘Exotic’ Is Racist

Get Stuff Fixed In Your Building! 3 Steps That Really Work & Help Stop Gentrification

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What’s Wrong with Cultural Appropriation? These 9 Answers Reveal Its Harm

An Open Letter to Afro-Latinxs: You Are Enough and It’s Okay to Have Questions

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4 Tired Tropes That Perfectly Explain What Misogynoir Is – And How You Can Stop It

The Everyday Comments Revealing Classism in Activist Communities

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4 Common Lies You Should Stop Believing About Black Single Mothers Right Now

Why Your Criticisms Of Intersectionality And Identity Politics Sound Ridiculous

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Your Anti-Oppression Roadmap to Traveling Through and Visiting Indian Country

Marissa Johnson, left, speaks as Mara Jacqueline Willaford holds her fist overhead and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., stands nearby as the two women take over the microphone at a rally Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in downtown Seattle. The women, co-founders of the Seattle chapter of Black Lives Matter, took over the microphone and refused to relinquish it. Sanders eventually left the stage without speaking and instead waded into the crowd to greet supporters. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

How the Interruption Of Bernie Sanders Exposed White Progressives’ White Supremacy

I Became So Exhausted with Proving My South Asian Identity That I Started to Ignore It

When Visibility Begins at Home

Why ‘I Have Black Friends’ Is a Terrible Excuse for Your Racism

Let’s Stop Pretending White People Can Be Objective on Racial Issues

When You ‘Don’t See Color,’ You’re Contributing to the Everyday Racism Around You

Your Fat Stigma Is Racist – Here Are 6 Ways to Shift That

Kinda Racist? Try Diet Racism!

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: 5 Amazing Muslim Women-Owned Businesses

Why Racial Justice Work Needs to Address Settler Colonialism and Native Rights

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5 Ways Taylor Swift Exemplifies White Feminism – And Why That’s a Problem

How South Asians Can Practice ‘Selfish Solidarity’ in the Movement for Black Lives

3 Facts You May Not Know About the Racist Origins of ‘Colorblindness’

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13 Things Even More Divisive Than People Who Always Bring Race Up in Discussions

5 Ways the LGBTQIA+ Movement Fails at Intersectionality

Negotiating the Hyphen in Asian-American

This Funny ‘Islamophobin’ PSA Is Challenging Anti-Muslim Bigotry

Here’s a Much-Needed History Lesson on the Origins of the Term ‘Women of Color’

This Poet’s Advice Left Championship Judges in Awe

5 Ways Black People Experience Non-Physical Violence on College Campuses

The Temporary Protected Status Program is Under Threat and So Are Thousands of Immigrants — Here’s How You Can Save Them