Recently, reports have suggested this poses a barrier to voting for many disabled Americans, since churches make up 20% of ...

Participants were asked to rate their level of anger about climate change on a scale of 0 to 100. The paper’s authors also ...

Musa al-Gharbi (Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University) spoke at a Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education ...

A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Zhe (Meredith) Zhang, California State University, Los Angeles ...

In this episode we are joined once again by Dr. Christopher R. Matthews from the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University. In this wide-ranging conversation Christopher ...

The centaur scene in Disney’s highly acclaimed cartoon Fantasia (1940) clearly communicates gendered expectations for men and women, but there are also racial politics. First, note that, in the film ...

The power of social media to burrow dramatically into our everyday lives as well as the near ubiquity of new technologies such as mobile phones has forced us all to conceptualize the digital and the ...

Robin H., Tomi L., and Kate McL. asked us to talk about the new movie, Avatar. Tomi thought the gender politics were great, with men and women as equals fighting and ruling side-by-side. I think she’s ...

I’m reposting this piece from 2008 in solidarity with Lisa Wade (no relation), whose (non-white) child was described by his teacher as “the evolutionary link between orangutans and humans.” It’s an ...

These images were all used (along with lots of others) in a 2003 campaign in which PETA, obviously, compared modern agricultural practices and eating meat with the Holocaust: I assume it will not ...

In 2000, at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW), Diallo Shabazz was my student. He was a senior. At the very beginning of his Frosh year, someone snapped this picture: From that point forward, ...