Identity Politics

A Penis And A Dress: Why The Gender Binary Needs To Go Away

Allison Hope | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Biological Sex, Transgender, Gender Identity, Identity Politics, Gender, Gender Stereotypes, Bender Boxes, Gender Binary, Gay Voices News
Allison Hope

Imagine a world where someone with a penis can wear dresses every day if this person desired. Gender-neutral bathrooms and department stores and professional sports become the rule rather than the exception to it. Children can play with whatever toys they prefer.

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Does Race Equal Skin Color?

Uloop | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: College Admission Race, Race Skin Color, College Race, Skin Color Identity, Race Identity, Application Race, College Application Race, Identity Politics, College News
Uloop

Since when did race equal skin color? When it comes to applying for colleges and jobs, the check box will always be there but it is not always mandatory to check it. It may determine how you will be identified or placed but it should never change your identity.

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Energy Voters as a Political Power

Peter Gardett | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Oil, Energy, Natural Gas, Energy Industry, 2012 Election, Keystone XL Pipeline, American Petroleum Institute, Identity Politics, Api, I Vote for Energy, Business News
Peter Gardett

Americans are accustomed to identity politics; can their identity as energy workers, producers and consumers outweigh other political identities?

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Kenya Dispatch: The End of Structure

Ming Holden | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Youth, Somalia, Collaborative Power, Horn of Africa, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Al'Shabaab, Kenya, Congo, Election Violence, Ptsd, Refugees, Foreign Policy, Youth Empowerment, Identity Politics, Nairobi, World News
Ming Holden

It wasn't until I mobilized a theater group for female survivors of gang rape at the hands of rebel army soldiers who murdered their parents in front of them that I truly learned what self-expression means to the future of democracy.

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Is Beauty Black or White?

Daniel Weeks | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Whites, South Africa, Blacks, Identity Politics, Racial-Identity, Race Relations, United States, Identity, Race, Beauty, Barack Obama, Black Voices News
Daniel Weeks

Walking through Shoprite the other day, a Wal-Mart-wannabe down the road from where my wife and I live in Cape Town, South Africa, I couldn't help but notice something peculiar in one of the aisles.

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Why 'Diversity' Boosts Inequality When Opportunity Falters

Jim Sleeper | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Politics, Critical Race Theorists, Diversity, Derrick Bell, Racism, Identity Politics, Remembering Derrick Bell, Politics News
Jim Sleeper

Obama's paradigm-rattling election suggested that although it's still necessary to "take account of race" and sex, we'd better make sure that color-coding doesn't divert attention from swifter, darker currents of greed and exploitation swamping the American republic.

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Latinos Must Help Unify America - by Voting in 2012

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Super Congress, Congress, Immigration, Immigrants, Arizona, Bachmann, New Mexico, Rick Perry, Romney, Utah, 2012, Unity, Politics, 2012 Election, Identity Politics, Tea Party, Republicans GOP, California, New York, Hispanic, Spanish, Congressional Budget, Democrats, Luis Gutierrez, Texas, Ethnic Politics, Education, Barack Obama, Pawlenty, Florida, Illinois, Latino Voices News
Fernando Espuelas

Latino-Americans can no longer afford to let other people vote for them. We cannot sit back and watch things happen to America, when we have the votes to achieve a better outcome for the nation.

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PHOTOS: Kara Walker On Sexuality, Slavery And Shadow Puppets

Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Fall Frum Grace Miss Pipi's Blue Tale, Exhibition Spotlight, Exhibition, Art, Sex, Identity Politics, Slavery, Kara Walker, Lehman Maupin Gallery, Race, New York City, New York, Sexuality, Art Exhibitions, Gender, Arts News

The exhibition “Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi’s Blue Tale” at Lehmann Maupin Gallery is a collection of three new video works from Kara Walker. Tho...

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How Democrats Lost Their Base -- And Why Identity Is Key to Winning It Back

Spencer Critchley | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Labor, Technocrats, Democratic Base, 1960's, Liberals, Identity Politics, Interest Groups, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Working Class, Politics News
Spencer Critchley

Most Democrats have trouble stating clearly what they stand for.That's a very big problem, because it turns out that in politics, identity trumps both interests and ideas.

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Tensions and Frustrations: Remembering Oscar Grant on MLK Day

Wendy Carrillo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Racial Politics, California, Martin Luther King, Oscar Grant, La Impact, Identity Politics, Police Brutality, Gabrielle Giffords, Race, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Racial Profiling, Los Angeles News
Wendy Carrillo

On the evening of the horrible Tucson shootings where Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, I met a young Black man who scoffed at th...

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Can Writing Be Taught?

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Mark McGurl, Writing Instruction, Creative Writing, Publishing Industry, Political Correctness, Poetry, Fiction, MFA Creative Writing Programs, Identity Politics, Multiculturalism, Books News
Anis Shivani

Behind McGurl's fancy charts and diagrams is the simplistic idea that because the program era exists, it does so because it serves a useful function.

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Tales From the Census Trail: Lara's Bit

Lara Janson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Florida, Census, Chicago, 2010 Census, Ethnicity, US Census, Recession, Door-to-Door Campaigning, Politics News, Unemployment, Gay Rights, US Census Bureau, Jim Lehrer, Identity Politics, Robert Groves, Racial Identity, Census Bureau, Census Worker, Diversity, Politics News
Lara Janson

In this day and age, why is 'Negro' included as a race on the 2010 Census form? I hope to explore this and many more issues as my training as a Census Bureau Crew Leader begins.

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Can the Census Handle a Changing America?

Erica Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Census, Identity, Demographics, Ethnicity, Diversity, Minorities, Identity Politics, Census Data, U.S. Census, Racial Identity, Politics News
Erica Williams

The Census is a telling--and at times controversial--window into the issue of identity. How people within the American "melting pot" identify themselves is often an insightful narrative on the society's relationship with race, ethnicity, assimilation, and culture.

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An Open Letter to Adam Lambert From the Gay Thought Police

Joe Vogel | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Adam Lambert, Media Criticism, Gay, Music, Humor and Satire, Identity Politics, Entertainment News
Joe Vogel

I like you, Adam, I really do. That is why I freely offer these pearls of wisdom on how to celebrate, not dilute, the purity of your sexual identity.

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Workplace Diversity: What Happens When White Men Don't Want It

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Preference, Race, Business, Workplace, Identity Politics, Bias, Diversity, Racial Preferences, Business News
Natalie Holder-Winfield

Until senior-level white men take a stake in the success of their employees of color, their organizations' retention and promotion efforts will fail.

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Sotomayor and the Vulcan Standard

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Tom Coburn, Ethnicities, Ethnicity, Identity Politics, Sonia Sotomayor, Jeff Sessions, Racism, Lindsey Graham, Jon Kyl, Politics News
Terrance Heath

Watching some members of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week was like a crash course in what I've often referred to as "self evasion of the mind."

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Jason Linkins

Bill O'Reilly: "The Left Sees White Men As The Problem" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Video, Identity Politics, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, Bill O'Reilly, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Barack Obama, Eat the Press, Media News

As you have probably experienced for yourself, it's so hard for most white dudes to get a leg up in America, a nation that has historically both hated...

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Mutts Like Me

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Multi-Heritage, Racial Identity, Mutt, Tribalism, Barack Obama, Identity Politics, Mixed Ethnicity, Obama Mutt, Obama Dog, Healthy Living News
Valerie Tarico

Mutts are often stronger, healthier and smarter than purebreds. They tend to live longer. They surprise you more. They're less prone to neuroses and other kinds of twitchiness.

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Barack is Not a Tiger

Michael Rowan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Rowan, Tigers, Hillary Clinton, Election 2008, Political Tigers, Identity Politics, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Michael Rowan

In one speech, Sarah Palin can achieve what it might take Barack Obama 100 speeches to do, if at all.

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Women Respond To Palin: Part One

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fundamentalism, Working Mothers, Identity Politics, Blue-State Feminsim, Women Against Sarah Palin, Women Say No to Palin, Hillary Supporter, Mccain, Red-State Feminism, Feminism, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Marcia G. Yerman

A substantial number of women writing in discussed their lives. Many made a point of conveying that they come "from small towns like Palin."

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Why the Political is Personal(ity)

Aimee Liu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Candidate Identities, Presidential Election, Personality Politics, Psychology, Identity Politics, National Election, Sarah Palin; Barack Obama; John Mccain; Obama Leadership; Palin Leadership;, Home News
Aimee Liu

There are seven basic traits that we all have in common, and our own personalities influence how we respond to Obama and Palin. This election season we would do well to understand how these seven traits affect our actions and reactions.

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White Men and the G.O.P. Mastery of Identity Politics

Jackson Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karl Rove, Conservatives, Rush Limbaugh, Identity Politics, Gender, Convention, Masculinity, Mccain, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, White Men, Real Men, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Jackson Katz

"I don't think Barack Obama is half the man Sarah Palin is. He can't take a punch, he's weak, and he whines," Limbaugh says of the Democratic nominee.

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America: Yours, Mine, and Ours (Part 1)

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Convention, U.S. Economy, Michelle Obama, Peggy Noonan, Economy, Barrack Obama, Race, African American, Same-Sex Marriage, Denver Convention, Patriotism, Gay Rights, Unemployment, Democratic National Convention Denver, Identity Politics, 2008 Presidential Race, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Gay Marriage, African Americans, Politics News
Terrance Heath

Part One: Yours, Mine... One of the things I hoped for when Michelle Obama spoke at the Democratic convention, was that she would introduce people to ...

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Young Voters, Identity Politics

Ben Terris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youth Vote, John McCain, Youth, Barck Obama, Identity Politics, Alabama, Young Voters, Obama, Mccain, Racism Obama, Mississippi, Barack Obama, Home News
Ben Terris

"McCain understands people like him better than he does people like us, so his tax plans will help the rich, not the people who need it the most. I want to vote for someone who will look out for me."

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John Edwards Win Seven Percent Of West Virginia Primary

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edwards West Virginia, West Virginia Primary, John Edwards West Virginia, John Edwards Identity Politics, Identity Politics, Politics News

AFP notes a strange trend in the West Virginia primary: the surprising turnout of John Edwards. Clinton beat Obama by a bruising 67 to 26 percent in ...

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