Monthly Archives: February 2017

Hands Off My Confidence

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Piper

I will be honest with you. I am so over people referring to women or black people or black women as if we are mysterious creatures, suffering from mysterious ailments, the causes of which can never possibly be understood. This … Continue reading →

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Hidden Figures: How and Why We Brought it to the 2017 JMM

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Edray Goins

By now, you’re heard of Hidden Figures, a 20th Century Fox biographical drama which follows three African-American women who worked for NASA in the early 1960’s. The movie is based on a book written by Margot Lee Shetterly. With a complete title of … Continue reading →

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Inclusion/Exclusion Principle

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Adriana Salerno

What do you think of when someone is described as “professorial”? I was recently reading an article that used this adjective to describe a film director. Immediately, I thought that they were speaking about a bearded white male, probably straight, … Continue reading →