Drawing a connection to the Safety Pin Box (patronized by at least one woman rabbi, and discussed here earlier; see also Jesse Singal’s critique for New York magazine), Slate’s Christina Cauterucci highlights another new project along the same lines: The Complicity Cleanse: “Billed as an ‘anti-oppression diet,’ the cleanse runs from Jan. 1 to Jan…
Via journalist Jesse Singal’s Twitter, I found one heck of a recent Vice story and video about something called the Safety Pin Box, a subscription service for white people who want to learn how to be better allies to people of color. “This is literally everything I have been whining about about corporate woke liberalism…
If I — a multi-heritage, brown, Jewish man — get chased down by neo-Nazis and find someone wearing a safety pin, how will I know if that person will actually do what it takes to save my life? Do they really know what they’re signing up for? I’ve found myself wondering this over the past…
People are wearing safety pins as a way to protest the recent election of Donald Trump. “Wearing my #safetypin because I am a queer, Jewish woman and I stand with all of my fellow humans,” wrote Miranda Day on Twitter. “For my Hispanic great-nephew, my Jewish great-niece and my African-American 2nd cousins I wear my…
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