Monahan introduces the concept of “media looping” to explain this process. Drawing on 37 media examples, including ...

When we hike or bike in preserved space, such as a state or national park, we’re not just enjoying nature—we’re experiencing a contested political space. Take, for example, the Trump administration’s ...

Without resorting to the pronounced (no pun intended) example of British English and US English, think about how you can often assume a person asking you if you want to “come with” is from the Midwest ...

A story by The Rice Thresher features Leah Binkovits (Sociology Ph.D. Student at Rice University and a Senior Editorial ...

Petts, Ball State University, for the Council on Contemporary Families symposium The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Gender Equality (PDF). [Acknowledgement: The authors greatly appreciate ...

Leana Cabral (Researcher at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Columbia University) wrote an article for The ...

While mothers who earn and work more do less of the physical domestic tasks, the mental load remains unmovable. This reveals a less recognised or seen – but nonetheless enduring – barrier to gender ...

I’m reposting this piece from 2008 in solidarity with Lisa Wade (no relation), whose (non-white) child was described by his teacher as “the evolutionary link between orangutans and humans.” It’s an ...

Still others are working tirelessly to preserve these signs into the future. One of these projects, Save Our Signs, is based here at the University of Minnesota. I talked with one of the project leads ...

As far as I can figure it, Halloween costumes come in three categories: scary, funny, or fantastical. This is why dressing up like another “race” or “culture” for Halloween is racist. A “Mexican Man,” ...

The power of social media to burrow dramatically into our everyday lives as well as the near ubiquity of new technologies such as mobile phones has forced us all to conceptualize the digital and the ...

One manifestation of white supremacy is the use of whiteness as the standard of beauty. When whiteness is considered superior, white people are considered more attractive by definition and, insofar as ...