Tae Phoenix
By Tae Phoenix
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Opinion Dear Senator Warren: Here’s what your candidacy meant to me
Dear Senator Warren, I first met you in September of 2018, at a rally in Washington, DC. You had come to speak to the women — most of us survivors of rape and sexual assault — who had spent the last several months being arrested, taunted, and talked down to as we fought tooth and…
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Opinion White nationalist terrorism only ends when we end it. Will you do your part?
The ‘replacement’ conspiracy theory underlies not only domestic terrorism but also immigration policy.
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Opinion I Was One of 36 Jews Arrested Protesting ICE. Never Again Is Now.
“But Daddy, why didn’t anyone do anything? Didn’t they know? Didn’t they care?” The first conversation I had with my father about the Holocaust is seared into my memory. I was maybe seven or eight when he explained to me that millions of people had been murdered because of their religion, where they came from,…
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Opinion Which Democratic Candidate Gets Intersectionality Best? A Ranked List
The left is fractious. Where the right wing prizes uniformity and compliance, we lefties come from hundreds of perspectives. To get us marching in the same direction takes a compelling force. Hence the adage, “Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.” The 2016 Democratic presidential primary was a fiasco because Bernie Sanders couldn’t wrap…
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Opinion I’m A Latina Jew. My People Are In Concentration Camps Today – Just Like They Were During The Holocaust
My life is one of those classic American mixed kid stories. My mom is Latina and my dad is Jewish, so I grew up calling myself a “challah-peño.” Though I am Latina, I don’t speak Spanish natively. Many Latinx families from my mother’s generation coped with the pressures of xenophobia by assimilating linguistically. Because of…
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