Adaptation of Global Textbook
Global is a textbook series that tries to challenge adult English language learners to investigate complex topics. Though many of...
A simple intervention enduringly reduces anti-Muslim sentiment
Collective blame is when an entire group of people are blamed for the action of one individual belonging to that group. Currently, this is often the case with Muslims. This article describes a simple, 1-minute intervention that drastically reduced European participants’ collective blame of Muslims for terrorist attacks. Basically, the process involved participants reading over …
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Local Peacebuilding
The Monterey Peninsula is providing an example of what local peacebuilding can look like. A recently formed Monterey Peninsula group, “Jews Christians Muslims United (JCM United)” opened “Abraham’s tent” on November 21, 2019, working together across faith groups (with Congregation Beth Israel, the Islamic Society of Monterey County, and various churches) to serve those in …
Your Corpse’s Environmental Impact
This entertainingly morbid video from the series “Ask a Mortician” by Caitlin Doughty, founder of The Order of the Good Death, focuses on the highly problematic environmental–as well as financial–impact of the funeral industry. Doughty explains the severe environmental issues involved in traditional American burials and cremations. She then goes into two eco-friendly alternatives: aquamation/water …
The Oatmeal: You’re not going to believe what I’m about to tell you
Though this comic from The Oatmeal does not specifically relate to any social justice issues, it does provide an accessible explanation of our mental processes that we should all be aware of when discussing hot-button issues (or implementing critical pedagogy). Specifically, it describes the backfire effect, which is a neurological fear-response which can end up …
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Assigned Male–Educational and affirming
I was introduced to Assigned Male through the Facebook posts of a non-binary friend. Though this is a webcomic, it’s not focused on humor, but rather sharing the daily struggles of trans people from an inside perspective. This comic both educates to those outside the trans community, and provides emotional support for those in the …
Reflection: Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars, by Margaret Wertheim
Wertheim, M. (1995). Pythagoras’ trousers: God, physics, and the gender wars. London, UK: W.W. Norton & Company Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars, by Margaret Wertheim, outlines the history of women in physics, showing how its origins in and long relationship with religion in the Western World have intentionally and unintentionally kept women …
A slab of despair in your pocket
Here‘s some depressing information about those little gadgets we all love to carry around and obsessively check. A few years ago, when my old phone had to be replaced (not because it didn’t work anymore–it still had a lot of life left in it!–but because a four-year-old phone was “so old” they’d stopped making software …
Protected: My privilege: financial and academic familial support
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Some data, amid all the truthiness
I stumbled on this article summarizing key findings about US immigration. While a lot of the statistics seemed intuitive, some surprised me, especially the percentage of Americans (62%) who say immigrants strengthen the country. I think it’...
Digital Redlining
My roommate pointed me to this article which discusses digital redlining–a concept which is new to me, and which I’m still trying to fully wrap my head around.
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