Ever since the Flint water crisis began, lead poisoning has been a top news story in national media. Most know the story of Flint's water crisis by now. Flint was assigned an emergency manager that...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year--Christmas cookie making time! It can be hard for Justice Oriented bakers on a budget to bake Justice Filled cookies. While 'ethical' consumption (e.g.the...
On Thanksgiving, I, like millions of other people across the US, sat at my Thanksgiving day table and promptly got into a fight with my conservative family members. Thanksgiving is one of the most...
The latest installment of Marvel’s superhero Avengers movies released this past weekend, and with it, the latest round of the ‘is this movie a feminist movie?’ debate started up. It’s a...
The NYTimes recently ran an article about obese pregnant women. Written by an OBGYN, the article starts off with the ominous “One recent night on my delivery shift, eight out of 10 of my laboring...
I hadn’t heard of the phrase “mommy porn” until I started reading reviews for the 50 Shades of Grey movie. Then it seemed like it was everywhere, from respectable news sites to Urban...
In the next few months, you’re going to hear a lot of feminists reflecting on if Marvel’s latest dip into television, the mini-series, Agent Carter, is “feminist or not.” With a show that...
One of the most compelling scenes in Selma takes place towards the end of the movie. Martin Luther King Jr. is standing on a bridge surrounded by religious leaders of every denomination. They all...
Nobody can say that Angelina Jolie doesn't love her subjects. Watching Jolie's Unbroken, a WW2 drama about US soldier Louis Zamperini’s imprisonment in a Japanese labor camp, it was impossible not...
When Michigan Governor Snyder first began installing emergency managers in different cities throughout the state, it couldn’t have been more deeply unpopular. The emergency managers came with the...
