Tag: activism
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The Case for “Hashtag Activism”
I’ve never seen myself as an activist. I was born on third and spent a lot of my life thinking I’d hit a triple. As I’ve started to learn about privilege — all the benefits I receive in the society I live because I’m a white, able-bodied cis-gender heterosexual male who learned English as his […]
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OPW: Bill Gates on Challenging Inequality
Excerpts from Bill Gate’s wonderful Harvard commencement, given about two weeks ago. I didn’t post it then, but I’ve been feeling a nagging need to do so, so here it is. The full text can be found here. I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world – the appalling […]