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Girls Are Not Chicks – Coloring Book

12. November 2009

Ballerina's with wrenches, a stubborn Miss Muffet and high heel cloning projects are just 3 of the 27 gender bending scenarios in Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak's Girl's are not Chick's coloring book. A yellow front and back cover is filled with multi-colored stars, the front featuring an upside down chick and on the flip side, a broken shell with the following definition

Fragmented Lives, Fragmented Parts: Culture, Capitalism and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border and Violence & Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez

20. April 2009

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Fragmented Lives, Fragmented Parts: Culture, Capitalism and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border and Violence & Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez

Although overshadowed these days in mainstream media by drug cartel violence, Cuidad Juarez has come to capture the minds of many people concerned about social justice, and for good reason. In no other city in Latin America do controversies such as globalization, economic collapse, institutionalized violence against women, history, immigration, resistance, North American exceptionalism and the much lauded Eduardo Galleano-esque mythology so crisply cut paths.

Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural

20. April 2009

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In reading Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural, one cannot help but be reminded of historical blind spots regarding the nature of profit -- a spot progressive idealists miss regularly. One need look no further than something like progressive advocacy of drug legalization as an example of collective amnesia about North American economics.

The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession With Virginity is Hurting Young Women

12. April 2009

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Though you might not know it judging from the tenor of "post-feminist" discourse, young women's positive conceptions of themselves and their futures are the result of the first- to third-wave feminist movements. Such is the blessing and curse of many a successful campaign -- gains are so positive, people can take them and the organizing, fearlessness and sacrifice that got us here for granted.

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Girls Are Not Chicks – Coloring Book

Fragmented Lives, Fragmented Parts: Culture, Capitalism and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border and Violence & Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez

Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural

The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession With Virginity is Hurting Young Women

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