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What Not to Wear: Blossom faces the 360 Mirror

As Mayim roamed from fitting room to fitting room, her biggest concern was that she was not going to “feel like herself."
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Marriage is “between a man and a woman” in California

To be able to vote away the civil rights of a minority group is an action in defence of heterosexist privilege.
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Thunder Bay & lessons not learned from residential schools

Despite promoting diversity through Canada’s national policy of multiculturalism, a Canadian identity is still understood as white.
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Fat-shaming during bikini season

The link between class and fat is ignored in an effort to present this issue as solely a problem of individual responsibility.
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Jon & Kate Plus 8, plus a scandal

Why aren’t she and Jon willing to live in a dump, subsisting on a diet of rice and beans so that Kate can be the perfect, long-suffering mother?
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For House, it’s either lupus or sarcoidosis

Illness does not end as projected on "House" after the disease is diagnosed; in fact, it is but the beginning of a very difficult journey.
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Mothers, embrace the insanity!

No matter how hard you try and no matter how much you love your children, at some point they are going to embarrass you.
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The Pope and the meaningless apology

Though the residential schools are now closed, they have had a lasting effect on the Indigenous population.
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Silly immigrants, Canada is for white people

Considering that incidents of violence against the Asian community are still occurring it seems to be premature to issue praise.
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The invisible rule of whiteness

The emotionalism argument derives its strength from the myth that people of color are the eternal children of the world.
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