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Tag Archives: Trayvon Martin

Las Vegas mom turns Stand Your Ground on its head, in the name of Trayvon Martin

As a crowd of people collects on the corner of Fremont Street and The Boulevard, you might miss the slight white woman with the flaming red hair. Shorter than her three kids, barely audible through the megaphone she’s speaking into, this small mother may speak softly but her impact on Las Vegas was big on…

July 16, 2013 in Community, Feminist, hate crime, politics, Race, violence.

[UPDATED] Zimmerman verdict and the tragedy of our justice system

[UPDATE: March scheduled downtown on Tuesday, July 16. Details here.] I have no words. I am choked with anger. The verdict in the George Zimmerman trial has once again proven that our criminal (in)justice system is criminally broken. As if I needed more fuel for the fire, it doesn’t help that yesterday another Florida court…

July 13, 2013 in Feminist, hate crime, politics, Race, stereotypes, violence.

Feminist Files: Racist bullshit edition

Skittles will never look the same: In the most recent Living While Black moment to make national news, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin (an A and B student with no record) was shot dead by an over-zealous neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman (who was arrested in 2005 for battery of an officer), while walking home from 7-11…

March 18, 2012 in activism, Feminist, Feminist Media, gender norms, media, motherhood, Race, violence.

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The Capital Gazette’s presses never stopped, because journalists never stop

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