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Mainstream appropriation gets tangled with black culture
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I don’t know about you, but earlier in September I was too busy navigating my new classes and their requirements to bother with the obvious mess of cultural appropriation that was Marc Jacobs’ Summer/Spring show. So, a few days later, when my social media was full of articles about it, I was a tad confused—why…
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Colin Kaepernick gives a voice to the under-represented
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Colin Kaepernick is a name many people wouldn’t recognize until a few weeks ago, when he made the bold move of sitting for the American national anthem at a football game for his team, the San Francisco 49ers. Kaepernick’s decision not to stand for the anthem stemmed from his belief that people of colour, particularly…
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The unwritten rules of female grooming
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We see it everywhere. On our favorite television shows, in the movies we watch and constantly in advertisements. Women’s skin without any body hair, other than their eyebrows and on their scalp. There is no denying that women in our society face a certain amount of pressure to have hairless skin. Women are constantly bombarded…
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