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When I was in middle school, I discovered feminism on Tumblr. Always a voracious reader, I devoured every book on it that I could find—eagerly consuming the words of feminists like Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, and Naomi Wolf. When I ran out of books to read, I turned my
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A group of American physicians has created a call-to-action against an Oregon registered nurse who posted proudly that the now-deceased Shiri Bibas “was fair game” for Hamas to kill, and that Jews are “rats” and “vermin of any kind”. The nurse — Camesha Lynn Hart, of Beaverton Oregon — works at the
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On college campuses across the globe, young men are subjected to lectures, workshops, and extracurricular activities that teach them their masculinity—an element at the very core of their identity—is dangerous, poisonous, and even toxic. For the last decade, I’ve covered men’s issues and advocacy. I started
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The first tenured professor to be fired for antisemitism, as I first reported here, has now secured a comfortable new role at one of anthropology’s most prestigious academic journals. Maura Finkelstein, the subject of eight antisemitic incident reports at Muhlenberg University, was accused by students of pushing anti-Israel bias
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Boca Raton — Growing up, there was a certain magic in sneaking off to McDonald’s after school. A McDonald’s two blocks from my elementary school was a second home to my latchkey friends and me, where we’d study, sip iced coffees, and revel in our caffeine highs while
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Tonight, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the elite Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut are hosting a Tu B'Shvat Seder for the community to rally around, but the student-protesters seem to have forgotten what Tu B’Shvat actually celebrates. The Israeli holiday of Tu B’Shvat — also
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An educator named Tema Okun, Ph.D., wrote a guide to “white supremacy culture” nearly 25 years ago. But recently, her work has resurfaced in academic studies about “whiteness as power” and claims that white people perpetuate “mathematical violence” and “mathematical trauma.” Okun’s paper, “White Supremacy Culture,” offers a
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A Colorado high school is facing backlash after their Palestinian baseball coach refused to shake hands with Jewish students on the opposing team, and another staffer also showed up to the Jewish school and decked out the rafters with keffiyehs and Palestinian flags with him. The basketball game happened on
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The Cleveland, Ohio apparel shop “University Tees” struggled today with whether they should cancel an order placed by the University of Maryland “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP) club. The sweater design was posted by UMD SJP’s Instagram page a few days ago. The sweater has “Free Palestine” on
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A department at Northwestern University, closely aligned with the school’s mental health and counseling services, is actively recruiting young men for a program designed to provide “education around masculinity in predominantly masculine spaces.” The MARS program—short for Masculinity, Allyship, Reflection, Solidarity—claims to combat “rape culture” and “restrictive
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A coalition of white and male professors is suing Northwestern University, accusing it of “consciously discriminating” in favor of women, trans individuals, and racial minorities at the expense of more highly qualified white male professors. The plaintiff, Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP), is a collective of
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A doctoral dental student at the University of Michigan got more than he bargained for when he confided in his school therapist about a false sexual assault allegation that he faced while he was in undergrad. According to a recent lawsuit, Doe saw a university psychiatrist who diagnosed him with