Culture
Looking Backward to Move Forward: Feminism Is the Path Toward Liberation
A Review of Joanna Scutts’ “Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism.”
Emily French
June 28, 2022
Emily French
Culture
Let’s Bend the Long Arc Toward Justice: A Review of Ibram X. Kendi’s New Book ‘How to Raise an Anti-Racist’
Kendi has some great suggestions for how parents can be intentional in nurturing children to be culturally competent and free from myths of white supremacy.
Emily French
June 18, 2022
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Voices of Gay Liberation: The Impact of the Stonewall Riots
With attacks on LGBTQ communities launched from school boards to state legislatures, now is a good time to read “Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America.”
Emily French
June 15, 2022
Culture
Laboratories of Autocracy: From Harrisburg to Other Statehouses Across the Country
A new book is a clarion call to organize for local elections and issues as passionately as you do for national ones.
Emily French
June 6, 2022
Culture
In Flights for Women’s Rights
Nell McShane Wulfhart recounts what happened with labor and women’s rights in the airline industry, American Airlines, and the Transportation Workers Union in the 1960s.
Emily French
May 24, 2022
Why There’s a ‘Great Resignation’ of Black Public School Teachers in Philadelphia
December 17, 2024
It started well before the pandemic and continues today. A key reason is experiences of racism within the larger school district that affect Black teachers across the system, but manifest differently depending on their schools’ locations.
It’s Do or Die Time for Philly Hydrogen Hub, and Some Green Groups Are Rooting for Death
December 16, 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy is dangling $750 million for the buildout of a hydrogen hub around Philadelphia. But the looming Trump presidency and strong economic headwinds endanger its prospects.
Bucks County’s 2024 Poet Laureate Uses Poetry and Dance to Destigmatize People with Schizophrenia
December 13, 2024
Lake Angela was moved by her own experiences with schizophrenia and the stories of the treatment patients in her dance therapy groups faced at the psychiatric institution.
White Fragility Leads Pennsylvania to Backtrack on Mandating Culturally Relevant Teacher Guidelines
December 11, 2024
The move to erase attention to anti-bias and culture in schools is grounded in denial that concerns about systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc., are real.
The Central Bucks Code Blue Shelter Operates for Little More Than One Median Household Income in Bucks County
December 10, 2024
The Coalition to Shelter & Support the Homeless provides the county’s unhoused individuals with more than 1,000 bed nights each year.