Michelle Zacarias
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michelle Zacarias
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Culture
“Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi” breaks from traditional teachings
December 20, 2017This film confirms Luke Skywalker's line from the trailer: “This is not going to go the way you think.”
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U.S.
Racist bus company: “You won’t feel like you’re in China on our buses”
December 7, 2017Using coded language, Suburban Express promised customers a ride with "passengers like you," rather than Asian students.
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Culture
Queer witches on the web: “Brujos” season 1
November 16, 2017The in-story “witch hunt” of the brujos is a blatant metaphor for the institutional oppression that Queer black and brown people face.
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Culture
Weinstein revelations force nation to confront the crime of sexual assault—everywhere
November 10, 2017It seems survivors are finally finding some broad-based support.
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U.S.
Chicago activists to hospital: Stop unnecessary surgery on intersex children
November 1, 2017The practice involves the medically unnecessary alteration of genitals and gonadal glands, a "corrective treatment” which the hospital offers.
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U.S.
Chicago mayor quietly pushes for $95m police academy
October 26, 2017The tentative construction site for the facility is located in Garfield Park, a predominantly black neighborhood on the west side of the city.
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U.S.
Indiana apple orchard in hot water after claims of discrimination
October 13, 2017“We believe that if this were a white person, the situation would have been handled much differently, and the police may not have even been called."
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Opinion
It’s time to retire Columbus Day for good
October 6, 2017Let us forget the monster who started it all, and throw Columbus in the dust heap of history where he belongs.
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