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Animal Rights News Sources
The first source I identified for keeping up with animal rights news is PETA’s website. PETA, of course, is probably the most (in)famous...

marym3
Oct 25, 20222 min read
Real-time Resources about Trans Rights
The first resource I found is https://www.advocate.com/transgender. Advocate.com has a range of topics included on the website, but has a...
Dylan Zumwalt
Oct 25, 20221 min read
Week 8 Blog Post
We read in Barbara Smith's interview that, though some of the people she worked with agreed with her on most issues, many of her...

Caleb
Oct 25, 20221 min read
Modern Applications
So as I've said before, the topic I've chosen is pretty broad and difficult to narrow down. A lot of the more strictly anti-consumerist...

Andrew P
Oct 25, 20221 min read
Misunderstanding in activism
In our reading from Lewis, we read that "As Barbara Gittings reassured audiences in a 1966interview, 'There is no evidence that...

Caleb
Oct 25, 20221 min read
Week 8 Blog Post
This week’s reading, an interview with Barbara Smith, a founder of the Combahee River Collective, explores the ways in which various...
Cole
Oct 24, 20222 min read
Week 8 Blog
Early activism, and becoming one of the first to make that first punch within your movement. Barbara Smith, who played a major role in...
ldrake15
Oct 23, 20221 min read
Week 7 Blog
In my discussion post for week 7, I talked about how Tisoncik went into depth about how activism really effected her personally, beyond...
ldrake15
Oct 23, 20221 min read
Week 8 - Barbara Smith Interview from How We Get Free
Funny enough my personal project actually is following the Black Feminist Movement so I appreciated that this piece was right up my ally,...
Dominique Domally
Oct 22, 20222 min read
Week 7 - Chapters 5 & 7 of Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement
I actually rather enjoyed this reading and loved the personal narrative frame of reference to the neurally diverse movement and cause. In...
Dominique Domally
Oct 22, 20222 min read
Week 6 - Lewis, “We Are Certain of Our Own Insanity”
Wow this passage just reminds me of the horrors of the past as a society and how far we have in addressing homosexuality. My contempt for...
Dominique Domally
Oct 22, 20222 min read
Week 5 - Crip Camp
The edgy title for this documentary was rather fitting since this documentary featured radical spirits of people who were enthusiastic...
Dominique Domally
Oct 22, 20222 min read
Finding commonality in division
This week's reading on Barbara Smith highlights the pros and cons of trying to find commonality in a movement. As Smith talks about...

mf64773
Oct 21, 20221 min read
Individualized Activism- Can one person really make a difference?
This week, we talked about a long interview with Barbara Smith, one of the founders of the black feminist movement. She talked in length...

Rachel
Oct 21, 20221 min read
Intersectionality and Coalition
This week, we read an interview with Barbara Smith, who is a Black feminist leader and icon. As a major part of the Combahee River...
ellie
Oct 21, 20222 min read
Crucial Figures? Easy!
This week we read Barbara Smith's Interview. It was really long and basically talked about her life and how she got into/what she has...
Sydnee
Oct 21, 20222 min read
Knowing Your History: The Foundation of Activist Movements
This week, we read an interview of Barbara Smith, a leader in the Black feminist movement. She discusses the challenges that she...
Dylan Zumwalt
Oct 21, 20222 min read
Week 8: intersectionality
This week, we read an interview with accomplished activist Barbara Smith about her work in the black feminism movement of the 1970s....

marym3
Oct 21, 20222 min read
Barbara Smith Interview
This week we read an interview with Barbara Smith where she talked about the struggle and discrimination she faced as an African American...

Kyra
Oct 21, 20221 min read
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