You guys....you guys! I was reading another article where they actually interviewed a woman who had sent her child to a charter school. He was getting all A’s and was excited to study engineering, so his mom enrolled him at a summer school science class at the University of Michigan. Suddenly he begin to struggle in a…

I came up in the Chicago public school system (oooh, scary Chicago! Quick, call in the Feds /s). My parents didn’t want me to go to the local neighborhood school, so they applied and got me and my brother into the magnet school system. We went to Franklin Fine Arts Center, a K-8 elementary school where the arts -…

That would be the butt implants.

You ass hat. People on this board are actually very well aware of the violence in Chicago, and in fact you cannot be unaware of it because it is the conservative’s favorite racist dog whistle. If you truly cared about the violence in Chicago, instead of just posturing about it in order to score a political point, then…

Maybe it’s because I just came from a study review session for the anthropology course I TA for, but this just makes me think about why we need to study anthropological theory and the history of the discipline so much more. History is not enough. You can’t just teach people sequences of events, its also important to…

Oh god I hope not. The last thing we need is some messy, made-up astronomy BS as a legitimate column on this site. Already I can tell how fake this is because you are mashing Chinese zodiac with Western-astronomy. Culturally that makes no sense. You can’t just pick and choose like that and leave out the culturally…

No, the problem is that you were more willing to believe the narrative of a youtube video, than actual history, fact, and reality. Do not act like a fragile snowflake here - learn about the actual history of the relationship between indigenous and the US govt. Then maybe you will be able to spot false narratives…

The Long Walk, Bosque Redondo, the Doctrine of Discovery, the Trail of Tears, the Sand Creek Massacre, the construction of the Florence Canal that killed off O’odhom along the Gila River, BIA Religious Crime Codes, forced integration, the assassination of Zuni Bow priests, stock reduction, General George Cook’s bloody…

I somewhat agree with the sentiment that calling this white nationalist/supremacist movement “Nazi” does kind of lend an element of foreignness, if only because that sense of foreignness is a result of our country’s efforts to hide and/or whitewash our own history. In fact, this ideology has deep roots in this country.

Actually it would be very much out of his field of experience, as he has no background in education nor health services. Getting experience in these fields means different classes, degrees, and requirements than becoming a surgeon. The three are not equitable. Astronomers do not design space rockets. Related, but way…

Ugh this so much. My dad was saying some criminally wrong shit about data points and statistics, and I gently pointed out to him that as someone who has trained for years as a social scientist, I would not interpret the data that way. My reward was being screamed at that I was being a an academic and “I’ve been a…

I assume you approve then of using dogs and mace on protestors? Or are you just doing what white people always do and trying to suppress POC’s emotions in response to someone defending the state use of violence against a repressed minority. #sitdownBecky

Way to skirt out of being a bigot. But I have seen multiple videos from the protest site and I also have friends up there who are participating in the protests. I also happen to have taught Native American students and yeah, the state is trying to fabricate the narrative that the protestors are violent in order to…

I am mixed Dutch-Indo (commonly referred to as just Indos, but basically people of Dutch-Indonesian ancestry) and since my hair is so fine I just assumed it was European hair. My current fiancé looked at my hair and said “Actually your hair is very much Southeast Asian hair, and it can use some oil, especially since…

Yeah you are completely wrong. Watch the whole video. The protestors did not threaten the guards. Way to be a sheep for the jack-booted thugs.

Agreed, this week has been very triggering too. On top of that I had a terrible experience with my dad recently (yelling and name calling), so my mom and I this past week and a half broke off our relationship with him (mental illness is a dick), and I got yelled at/condescended too several times this week by older…

You should be careful before making reckless accusations. Haim supposedly was first raped on and off set by his abuser in 1982 at the age of 11. Brad Pitt was attending the University of Missouri at that time. I do not see how a 19 year old young man in the Midwest could be operating a pedophile ring all the way over…

Given the sheer awfulness of his previous statement regarding pregnant employees, Cosmo is well within their journalistic right to ask the questions they are asking about Trump’s child care policy. Especially one as poorly thought out as this one (and not surprising given the candidate it’s coming from.

I remember this so well. I was 12 and already a proud #feminazi (a la pinche Limbaugh). I read about it in the kid’s newspaper that the Chicago Tribune printed for a while in the 90s. I was so pissed. And I’m still pissed now :)

Ha ha that’s a family friend of mine. My mom has known Fred since she was a teenager. Glad to see his art is getting around.