All posts by Tressie McMillan Cottom
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Gender, Race, And Going To Class: A Call For A Feminist Reading of For-Profit Colleges?
Most of us have seen the ads exhorting us to “call today!” to start on a new future with a college degree. How many of...
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Race, Feminism and the Academy: I Got Out of Pocket
When The Onion called nine-year-old Oscar phenom Quvenzhané Willis a gendered, sexualized slur, like thousands of others I watched it unfold live on Twitter. In...
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Washington Post and 'Feminist Americans' Won't Let Michelle Obama Have It All
This began as an essay about the re-emergence of the “having it all” debate, led by Anne Marie Slaughter’s article in The Atlantic last year....