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		<title>On the Search for Normal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 11:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These day’s I’m struck by how many boxes we [human beings] attempt to put ourselves in. Despite all of the advances  of the industrial age, civil rights, feminism, and the like… at the end of the day, there still seems to be an incessant compulsion with categorizing ourselves and each other. I’m struck by Miller [...]
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		<title>On Anonymous Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; These days every time I turn on the radio I seem to hear a song by Chris Brown or R. Kelly. Judging by this, and Brown’s recent record sales alone, it seems like their unfortunate encounters with the women who have crossed their paths, has stopped impacting their respective careers in any significant way. [...]
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		<title>Weekly Link Round Up: Japan, Feminism and Sexual Violence, Black Politics, Mind/Body Health &amp; More!</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2011/03/18/march-18-weekly-link-round-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything You Want to Know about Japan -     To kick off this week&#8217;s Weekly Round Up, here is a nice overview from The Nation on where to donate to help with the Japanese disaster relief effort: How to Help Japan: -      A simple and direct case for the non-existence of nuclear facilities from the Huffington [...]
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		<title>Weekly Link Round Up: Women, Gang-Rape, Lent, BIG, Yoga, Academia and Spirituality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Hey folks, since I am no longer on facebook for the forseeable time being, a lot of folks have asked me to continue to post links to my favorite articles that I come across during the week. Since I no longer have my facebook wall to facilitate that project, I&#8217;ve decided to post weekly [...]
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		<title>The Middle-East, Detroit and The Need for Political Courage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all of these non-violent protests happening around the world, one of the things that have been on my mind, is Martin Luther King Jr.’s little known radical pacifist theology. Few people know, that King adamantly opposed the Vietnam War and all forms of military violence, in addition to being opposed to violent protest strategies. [...]
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		<title>The Politics of Renaming&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people describe watching &#8220;reality&#8221; dating shows as synonymous to watching a train crash&#8230; you know you shouldn&#8217;t be watching&#8230; in fact, you know its really horrible that you are watching and that it goes against everything you &#8220;stand&#8221; for&#8230; and yet&#8230; you just can&#8217;t turn away. As for me, I&#8217;m pretty much able to [...]
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		<title>Three Things Women Can Learn from Men About Dating</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t consider myself a relationship blogger by any stretch of the imagination&#8230; but as I bumble around trying to figure out graduate school, Chicago, and blackness&#8230; I&#8217;m also figuring out being a twenty-something single black woman &#8230; In this post I&#8217;m a little more open about my own experiences than I usually am&#8230; so [...]
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		<title>How Murs Misses the Point about Women and Rock the Bells</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this over at Year of the Blacksmith. Murs recently spoke with Hip Hop Official about why there were no women on the Rock the Bells Tour. Murs makes some decent points about the current culture of hip-hop and the way its tendency to be misogynist can [occasionally] create an environment hostile to women. [...]
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		<title>R.I.P. to the Victims of Hurricane Katrina, Ted Kennedy &amp; Michael Jackson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although seemingly such three different figures/events, perhaps it is appropriate that we celebrate/remember all of these lives together. All of these figures have pushed us to think about those less fortunate then ourselves, those who have been forgotten and gone uncared for in this country and around the world
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		<title>Road to Freedom Exhibit: : Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement 1956-1968</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surprisingly, I found myself emotionally moved by the exhibit as well. While many of the images I had seen before, some... like a photo of a young man with a dog's teeth literally gauging his stomach... were shockingly new to me.
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