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Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue
A guide that helps parents focus on their children’s unique strengths and inclinations rather than on gendered stereotypes to more effectively bring out the best in their individual children, for parents of infants to middle schoolers.
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Liberal Whites need to check into their own racism. They can’t hind behind their political ideology. “It looks like Amy Cooper,the Central Park woman from the viral video, is a liberal.” That's important
Opinion: It looks like Amy Cooper is a liberal. That's important
On Monday around 8am, a white woman named Amy Cooper was walking her dog unleashed in a protected area of New York City’s Central Park, a wooded...
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If men could menstruate: Then menstruation would become a boastworthy masculine event. Federally funded. Used as proof of males’ superiority. I.e., a male-dominated culture would simply reflect this. Gloria Steinem’s classic 1978 essay. Excerpted here: https://xyonline.net/sites/xyonline.net/files/2020-05/Steinem%2C%20If%20men%20could%20menstruate.pdf
Children who experience trauma are more likely to exhibit resilience when their environments are responsive to their specific needs. https://buff.ly/30cA7kL
I expect racism to rise (from an already high baseline). "Reminding Whites of their mortality promotes more
favorable reactions to White racists." From Greenberg et al in 2001.
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Regardless of gender identity, kids and teens want, and need, to be seen and affirmed. Representation and actual knowledge matters. This shouldn't be confined to one day a year. Read More
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