With so many social issues coming into the spotlight in recent years, more and more focus has been given to the issue of oppression against minority groups. Despite well documented and well defined ...

Racism has always been a tempered subject, particularly on diverse and liberal college campuses such as this one. It is a pressing issue and certainly one that has not gone away. But something bothers ...

Social justice is a complex topic and thinking about what we do and how that affects others is something that challenges most of us on a daily basis. Understanding the five faces of oppression is one ...

A Maryland school district is giving students a worksheet about how privileged or oppressed they are as part of a lesson plan linked to Black Lives Matter. Teachers in Howard County Public School ...

In a previous post, I talked about how cognitive behavioral therapy traditionally focused on fairly privileged groups (educated, rich/higher income) and how this therapy has been adapted to those who ...

African American history does not provide a great vantage point on the history of human flourishing. Instead, it is one of the most depressing subfields in American history—second perhaps only to ...

Today, October 7th 2024, marks one year since the Hamas attack on Israel that many consider to have sparked Israel’s US-backed genocidal campaign against Gaza that is now exploding into a regional war ...

Salsabel Almanssori receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Muna Saleh receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) ...

Environmental oppression refers to human activities that result in the contamination of the Earth and the environs of space. The United States government released a National Climate Assessment in 2014 ...

Tens of thousands of protesters joined rallies across Australia on Sunday against the oppression of the country’s indigenous population and the imperialist-backed Israeli genocide against the ...