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As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Eviction affects the old and the young, the sick and able-bodied. But for poor women of color and their children, it has become ordinary. Walk into just about any urban housing court in America, and you can see them waiting on hard benches for their cases to be called. Among Milwaukee renters, over 1 in 5 black women report having been…
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Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
She pointed out to these reporters that between 30 and 50 percent of those killed by police are disabled.
Andrew Leland • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
are ravaging bodies in Eastern and Southern Africa, a region already containing 25 percent of the world’s malnourished population. Human-made environmental catastrophes disproportionately harming bodies of color are not unusual; for instance, nearly four thousand U.S. areas—mostly poor and non-White —have higher lead poisoning rates than Flint, Mich
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
These determinants range widely: across income, education, housing, stress, social relationships, and more.
Elizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
the data convincingly show that the net result was fewer jobs for Americans with disabilities.
Stephen J. Dubner • SuperFreakonomics
Weathering doesn’t start in middle age.
It begins in the womb. Cortisol released into a pregnant person’s bloodstream crosses the placenta, which helps explain why a disproportionate number of babies born to parents who live in impoverished communities or who experience the constant scorn of discrimination are preterm and too small
Akilah Johnson • Stress Is Weathering Our Bodies From the Inside Out
The chronic stress that accompanies poverty can be detected at the cellular level. One study found that up to 5,500 premature deaths that occurred in New York City from 2008 to 2012 could have been prevented if the city’s minimum wage had been $15 an hour during that time, instead of just over $7. A higher minimum wage is an antidepressant. It is a
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
Examines Octavia Butler's portrayal of black female protagonists as "captive maternals," highlighting their resilience and agency in speculative fiction, contrasting with mainstream science fiction narratives that often marginalize or erase their experiences.
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