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Brigitte Fielder
Your Predominantly White Academic Organization (Yes, Even Yours) Is Exactly One Live-Tweeted Racist Event Away from Public Disgrace.
Bodies and Minds
Brigitte Fielder
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July 22, 2020
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You (yes, you) should really do something about that. When a Racist Event at an academic conference or on a listserv is subjected to more...
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On The Misuses of Truth
Bodies and Minds
Brigitte Fielder
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October 23, 2019
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I recently saw a Tweet that read: Those commenting on Great Thunberg would do well to remember that Joan of Arc led an army, Jane...
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Caster Semenya is “A Woman’s Rights”
Bodies and Minds
Brigitte Fielder
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June 5, 2019
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On Monday, June 3, the Swiss Federal Tribunal ruled to allow Caster Semenya to continue competing in her own body. "I am thankful to the Swiss...
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Swing Low, White Women
The Wide, Wide World
Brigitte Fielder
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January 22, 2018
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At the 2017 Women’s March in Madison, Wisconsin, I carried a sign that read “I AM A WOMAN’S RIGHTS. –Sojourner Truth, 1851” I was...
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White Womanhood Revised
Bodies and Minds
Brigitte Fielder
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June 15, 2015
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Whatever else we might say about it, let’s not forget this: Rachel Dolezal’s story is a decidedly American one. Here, I refer not only...
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Making Sense of the Whiteness Project
Bodies and Minds
Brigitte Fielder
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October 16, 2014
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The most noticeable thing about the recently launched Whiteness Project is that public responses to it have been so varied. The website gives an...
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Top Seven African American Ladies Who Could Have Used Obamacare’s Birth Control Mandate.
Bodies and Minds
Brigitte Fielder
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November 5, 2012
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Sarah Mesle’s piece “Top Seven Ladies Who Could Have Used Obamacare’s Birth Control Mandate” has me thinking about the importance of birth control, and...
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After 29 Years on this Planet, Finally Writing My Mother a Mother’s Day Note
The Nanny’s Loud Body
The Body in Theory
