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Anita Sarkeesian cancels Utah State speech after mass-shooting threat - 0 views

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    Video game critic, feminist and blogger Anita Sarkeesian canceled a Wednesday speech at Utah State University after the college received an email threatening violence if she lectured, school officials said. Sarkeesian is a pop culture critic whose series of videos under the Feminist Frequency banner analyze sexism in mainstream video games.
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One Powerful Illustration Shows Exactly What's Wrong With How the West Talks About Ebola - 0 views

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    The Ebola epidemic hit a particular nerve with the artist. "People in the African continent are more regarded as an abstract statistic than a patient in the U.S. or Europe," he said. "How many individual stories do we know about any African patients? None. They are treated as an indistinguishable crowd."
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The problem with 'thug' cuisine - 2 views

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    Editor's note: Bryant Terry is an Oakland, California-based healthy eating advocate and author of "Afro-Vegan: Farm Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed." Follow him on Twitter @bryantterry. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author.
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Apple, Facebook To Female Employees: Keep Working, We'll Pay To Freeze Your Eggs - 1 views

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    Facebook and Apple have both announced an uncommon program to help their female employees lean all the way in. The tech giants will now cover the cost of egg-freezing treatments for women (and their male partners) who want to delay their family plans in favor of advancing their careers.
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White People Are Unironically Talking About the White Experience in New PBS Documentary - 1 views

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    The news: This week, PBS and documentary filmmaker Whitney Dow launched the first installment of the "Whiteness Project," a thorough and well-intentioned interview series that aims to make white Americans open up about their racial identities. Dow has started his goal to interview 1,000 white Americans across the country to obtain their unfiltered views on race.
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