Years before Megan Jeyifo became a “super dope mom,” she was a scared, pregnant 16-year-old girl who had just lost her mother and felt like…
Posts published in “Gender & Race”
Ethnocentrism in Peruvian advertising does not represent the local population. WHEN I WAS about 6 or 7, my mother would take my brother and me…
Patti Pacino, a councilwoman on the Batavia, New York City Council, reads official documents five times over before heading to regular meetings to avoid questioning…
The grass and ivy decorated along the outfield wall at Wrigley Field was as green as ever on this sunny afternoon. The crowd in the Budweiser Bleachers anxiously…
Former ChicagoTalks reporter and editor Ellyn Fortino reports that a new Chicago organization, Women Organizing Women (WOW) is hosting a “Women Against the Machine” town hall meeting on…
I walked around the city carrying a poster filled with pictures of interracial couples. The looks I received were all too familiar. As I tried…
Seth Nayes, a Chicago-based burlesque performer and print model, talks about his transformation from a very unusual childhood on a Native American Reservation, a stint as a…
There will be a discussion & reading from a new book by ‘The Honest Courtesan’ Maggie McNeil at 1700 S. Loomis in Pilsen on July 23 from…