Anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly sought the perfection of the traditional family, at the expense of reality itself, by fighting against the Equal Rights Amendment.
It is comforting to imagine we are making steady progress in combating racism. But it’s also misleading: we have done far too little in the last fifty years.
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Defending racist and violent policing as the result of individual “bad apples” doesn’t just obscure larger systemic problems. It hinders the pursuit of justice.
A new, polyphonic collection with poems by more than a hundred Latinx writers responds to the vexed problem of identity with expansiveness, not reductionism.
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