Paige Martin

Comparing ourselves to a way we never were

Creating over-simplistic, false historical comparisons doesn't help anyone. While I agree that the GOP presidential candidate is anything but civil, to claim the internet has ushered in a new era of people being rude, is super convenient and propping up a version of the past that is not there.

Was it civil for Representative Duke Cunningham on May 11, 1995 on the floor of the House to call gay and lesbian folks serving as “homos in the military?” Or when in 1996 Hillary Clinton called black men “superpredators”?

You can't forget instances of slurs, incivility, and prejudice because they don't fit your narrative. That's not helpful to anyone moving forward.

If more instances of incivility do exist, it is probably because we are able to document them all and spread them all in this age of the internet instead of them getting lost in private conversations or bogged down on C-Span 2.

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We’re more informed than you think

For a millennial voter, her support for Sanders is not based on lack of feminist history, but ‘much more so on how I have come to understand my feminist ideals’

Let's just get it all out there. I am super in favor of many of Bernie Sanders' policies, and in some areas I think he doesn't go far enough. Also, I am a woman, and I am on the fence about voting for Hillary Clinton if she gets the...

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Lorde is misdirecting the blame

The musician is seemingly talking only about consumption of hip-hop culture — and that brings race into the equation

Several weeks ago, Newsweek writer Leah McGrath Goodman addressed the song “Royals,” written by the singer Lorde. The author applauded the song for its attention to - and, more importantly, its taunting of - consumerism, exposing its shallow nature. I believe the author missed one of the main contradictions...

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Raising funds and consciousness

This year marks the 21st Women's Film Festival, which strives to represent the lives, relationships, struggles, and triumphs of women and girls - not as victims of circumstance, but as innovators of their own realities. In spring of 1992, the idea was born as a fundraiser and an outreach vehicle for the Women's Freedom Center (WFF), then known as the Women's Crisis Center. Christie Herbert, who was on the festival committee for the first six years, said the event “was...

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