white-privilege

www.independent.co.uk

2 months ago

UK news

Suella Braverman: stop making people feel guilty for being white

Suella Braverman asserts that white people should not be made to feel guilty for being white.

She argues that suggesting the countryside is racist because it is predominantly white is wrong and dangerous. [ more ]

www.independent.co.uk

2 months ago

UK news

Labour backs idea of teaching children about white privilege

Labour supports teaching children about white privilege

Shadow minister emphasizes the importance of asking difficult questions about the nation's history [ more ]

www.independent.co.uk

11 months ago

UK news

Bridgen's constituents say MP has gone off the rails' after Reclaim defection

Constituents represented by Andrew Bridgen said he has gone off the rails after he declared his defection to the Reclaim Party.The North West Leicestershire MP confirmed he has become the party's first Parliamentarian at a press conference on Wednesday.He was kicked from the Conservative Party last month.

www.independent.co.uk

1 year ago

UK news

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan says white privilege is not a fact'

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has said she does not believe white privilege is a fact as she argued it should not be taught as such in schools.The Cabinet minister said the topic had been part of a debate about what youngsters should be taught in school.She told LBC radio: We've basically said: Look, here's what we should be teaching, we should have balanced debate'.

New York Post

4 months ago

Education

Ohio State University health sciences course requires students to engage with 'White Privilege Knapsack'

A health sciences program at Ohio State University requires students to address their privileges if they are White, heterosexual, or able-bodied.

The course includes an assignment called "Unpack the Invisible Knapsack" which asks students to examine their privilege.

The assignment is based on Peggy McIntosh's essay "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack." [ more ]

LGBTQ Nation

1 year ago

Education

Ultra-MAGA candidate goes bananas during convention speech with graphic claim about 5-year-olds

A GOP candidate has taken fear mongering to new heights, claiming that schools are teaching five-year-old children to have oral sex.

www.nytimes.com

1 year ago

NYC music

Lana Del Rey Plunges Into the Deep, but Never Abandons the Shallow

I wrote you a note, but I didn't send it, Lana Del Rey sings on her rangy ninth album, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd a 16-song, 78-minute collection as sprawling, hypnotic and incorrigibly American as an interstate highway.Many of the tracks have the run-on, handwritten feel of letters never mailed, and this particular one, the fluttering piano ballad Sweet, is addressed to a paramour who seems unwilling to go as deep as the 37-year-old Del Rey.

www.npr.org

1 year ago

Arts

A director critically reexamines his 1980s childhood in 'Armageddon Time'

Banks Repeta plays 11-year-old Paul Graff and Anthony Hopkins is his grandfather in Armageddon Time.Anne Joyce /Focus Features A lot of filmmakers these days seem to be in an intensely personal, self-reflective mood.There's a terrific movie in theaters right now called Aftersun, and it's based on the childhood memories of its first-time director, Charlotte Wells.

Therumpus

1 year ago

Writing