Author Archives: Julia

Written by Love Isn’t Enough Guest Contributor Lexa; Originally published at Lexa’s Journal. When it comes to educating children, I am a firm believer that the opportunity to learn takes place more often in the absence of a formal curriculum. … Continue reading →

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Written by LIE Co-editor Julia Recently, while wandering around the university where I work, I discovered a publication produced by the university’s library titled “One hundred years of Little Black Sambo.” The publication describes the library’s acquisition of a collection … Continue reading →

The Loving Story Premieres this Valentine’s Day on HBO [Southern Poverty Law Center] Teaching Tolerance has produced a teacher’s guide to accompany The Loving Story, a documentary about an often overlooked aspect of the civil rights movement – the fight … Continue reading →

The Swastika in Our Neighborhood [Huffington Post] This led to a discussion of Hitler’s view of a master race, which is pretty tough to explain to a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jewish child (a friend fondly refers to him as “the Jewish … Continue reading →

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Inside Our Scary, Society-Destroying Family [CNN/InAmerica] And so it has begun again, this time for the legalization of marriage for gays and lesbians in Washington state. The battle has occurred in the legislature and most likely will move to a … Continue reading →

Written by Asha; Originally published at New Jersey to Nigeria You know what? I have BEAUTIFUL HAIR. It’s shiny and lustrous. I have the kind of hair you see in hair commercials, like this: I am not actually Penelope Cruz … Continue reading →

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It’s Thursday, time for another cute kid pic! This week we feature LIE reader Jenny’s son, Markus, age 3 in the mouse hat he made at school. How cute is he??!! Got cute kids? We know you do! Send a … Continue reading →

Written by Jennifer; Originally published at Mixed Race America I’ve been having an interesting discussion on the comment thread of a post I wrote about bullying with a commenter known as Artificer. Artificer’s original post to me was about his … Continue reading →

Because I was so infuriated after reading this, I had to share: Tea Party Group Wants To ‘Soften’ Slavery In Textbooks [WCYB.com] “My biggest concern is that important information is being omitted, which creates a negative light on our Founding … Continue reading →

Sterilized by North Carolina, she felt raped once more [LA Times] Elaine Riddick was only 14 when the state decided that she was not capable of mothering children and quietly cauterized her fallopian tubes. The $50,000 now offered to her … Continue reading →

Written by Renee Martin; Originally published at Womanist Musings As regular readers are aware, the unhusband and I are extremely dedicated to social justice parenting and teaching our children critical thinking skills. There are times when I wish that there … Continue reading →

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It’s Thursday, and this week, we are honored to feature Aidan, longtime LIE reader Lyonside’s son. As many of you may recall, Aidan passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in late 2011. He would have celebrated his first birthday this month. … Continue reading →

Written by Lisa Wade; Originally published at Sociological Images In this minute-and-a-half, sociologist Nikki Jones talks about the way that the idea of the ghetto has been commodified — especially in rap and hip hop — in ways that informs … Continue reading →

Thin Mint Morality Wars: The Girl Scout Cookie Boycott [Tranifesto] Last year, I wrote a guest post for the excellent blog Womanist Musings called “Leave the Kids Out of It,” about a brouhaha over gendered Halloween costumes. Now we’ve got … Continue reading →

Written by Philip N. Cohen; Originally published at Sociological Images I can’t teach my course on family sociology without these graphs, which show the rise of the unfree population, and the incredible race/ethnic and gender disparities behind them. The Bureau … Continue reading →

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