#Inequality

As part of our commitment to accountability to feminist mvmts, @equality_fund, @awdf01 & other partners collab'd w @AWID to consult w feminists globally to guide our thinking as we design
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Reality check. A Biden win is a return to neoliberalism that gave us Trump. Biden will fulfill his promise to billionaire donors - “nothing will fundamentally change” - unless we
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Most mornings this week I've been w colleagues on #UCUstrikes picket lines. I'm proud that many @bhamlaw profs & readers have also been there. We are not leaving it to
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This is called an ad hominem, attacking the person rather than the argument. (It’s our privilege and our unwillingness to work through negative feelings that are the real culprits). This
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Don’t know who needs to hear this but philanthropy is not a substitute for anti-poverty programs, and the fact that billionaires have successfully convinced so many people otherwise proves it
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Grateful for this timely message from the Premier. Last night, I received an email that began w, "anyone want Chinese tonight," followed by a photo of snakes & pangolins in
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Reasons why Black hair is not just hair- a thread . Slide Credits- @/vibesofablackgirl on instagram The Pencil Test Map to Freedom Means of Survival Cultural Representation The Tignon Law
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It’s time for us to lay out our spiciest takes. Right now. No blue check marks to cancel us DEEP DISH PIZZA IS VASTLY SUPERIOR AS A LIFE EXPERIENCE BUT
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A letter to the editor from me and @AvashiaNeema was published today. I'm pasting below in a thread.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/30/opinion/virtual-space-students-slip-through-boston-schools-fingers/ ‘Dropout’ is the wrong la
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For well over a decade, I have been a huge, huge advocate of technology and startups being an amazing equaliser for society and kryptonite to inequality/poverty. Tbh, I'm really now
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we've got to talk more about how the refusal to acknowledge white supremacy and its history – the way it is woven into all of our systems – is destroys
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Having spent the last few days thinking about how frustrated I am with how I perceive the lip service that has been paid towards the lower ranking players and events
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So Venezuelan twitter has been debating racism in Vzla. I think that bc 1) racism in Vzla is & has always been less pernicious than in the US and 2)
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WHOA. In an unprecedented move, the editors of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine condemn the Trump administration for its FAILED response to the #coronavirus pandemic.And they call for
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A key moment in this v good @emilybazelon roundtable about remote learning: Denver schools chief says they'll start offering child care for K-5 students, and @nhannahjones asks: "Why child care
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Wars on history aren’t about winning history. They are about justifying & framing a current course of action, and sketching a vector — a direction — for the future.Understanding the
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