Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Michael Cohen, Mueller: 3 Stories You Should Read 1/24/2018
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Trailblazer or crazy person?
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Kamala Harris Birther Conspiracy Raised Days After She Announces Her Presidential Campaign
Reading Time: < 1 minute A candidate of color is running for president again, so *naturally* the baseless birther conspiracies are back about Sen. Kamala Harris (she was born in California, btw)
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Huffpo: I’m Not ‘Lucky’ Because My Husband Cooks And Cleans
Reading Time: 5 minutes To say it’s lucky that my 40-something husband can and does make his own dinner, places his own towel in the bathroom hamper, and calls to ask if he can pick our daughter up from soccer practice when he gets out of work early takes us from a sign that he is an adult to evidence that I’ve scooped the bonus prize out of the cereal bag of life.
But there’s nothing lucky about opening your box of breakfast cereal in the morning and finding corn flakes inside. The problem is opening the box and finding nothing at all.
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Transitioning Back to Work After Baby
Reading Time: 2 minutes Just when you were getting the hang of having a baby at home, it’s time to go back to work. Beyond the expected changes such as picking work tasks back up and catching up on things you’ve missed, your priorities have most likely shifted now that you’re a parent.
It’s normal for parents to feel anxious about transitioning back to work after having a baby, but they don’t have to do it alone. Most new parents have built-in support systems of friends and family, but if their child will be attending daycare, that structure can provide additional help through the transition.
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Body Cams, GOP Lawmakers, Healthcare: 3 Stories You Should Read 1/23/2018
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: They aren’t that expensive.
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New York Times: Along the U.S.- Mexico Border
Reading Time: 11 minutes As the president fights to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, the journalists Azam Ahmed and Meridith Kohut are driving along the approximately 1,900-mile border and sending dispatches.
Goods flow freely. People?
That’s another story.
A Closer Look at Native American Activist Nathan Phillips Through a Powerful Lens
Reading Time: < 1 minute Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. SKRILLEX & DAMIAN “Jr. Gong ” MARLEY
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The Root: From Most Hated to American Hero: The Whitewashing of Martin Luther King Jr.
Reading Time: 6 minutes When anyone tries to tell you what Martin Luther King Jr. would have wanted, remind them that we likely could have known his true feelings if a white man hadn’t put a bullet in his brain.
White people do not love Martin Luther King Jr.
And by “white people,” I do not mean it as a blanket statement. I mean it as a historical, statistics-supported fact. I mean it to describe the majority of white people who did not support the abolition of slavery, the civil rights struggle, the Black Power movement, Black Lives Matter, or any other American movement for justice and equality.
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It’s Vulnerable and Difficult to Admit When Bias Gets In the Way of the Truth – But We Need To Do It Anyway
Reading Time: 3 minutes Checking your biases is hard, dirty, unpleasant work. However, we’re never going to untangle this mess until we are collectively willing to go there.
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The question before men today is this: Who am I, as a man, if I don’t dominate others with money and sex?
Reading Time: 4 minutes So much has changed in my lifetime. So much. And so much will be changed by the end of my life. If men hold fast to outdated ideas and ways of being, the result will be even more unhappy, lonely, unfufilled men. Which would be such a tragedy for all of us. If more men can grow, evolve and serve, then there’s a chance it will be a much better world than the one I was born into, where everyone was forced into strict roles, responsibilities and limitations. We can live in a world of authenticity, freedom and openness – for all of us.
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