Saturday Link Love: Black-ish on Police Brutality, #ObamaAndKids, and Transgender Children’s Mental Health

Saturday Link Love is a new feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

Note: Inclusion does not imply full agreement. 

Why I Created #ObamaAndKids, on Vantage—“Then I started thinking about all of the other children in this country, and what it means for them. What it means for them to have this president, at this time, leading this country through this incredibly difficult transition.”

Black-ish and How to Talk to Kids about Police Brutality, in the Atlantic—“The episode’s format was, as Barris put it, like an “overheard conversation,” taking place in the living room as the family watched the news to see if a police officer would be indicted.”

Planned Parenthood gunman: I’m on “righteous crusade,” on CBS News—“They got 4,000 babies get aborted every day,” Dear told Sallinger. “I guarantee you they had a lot of cancellations and I might have saved a thousand.”

10 Words Every Girl Should Learn, on Films For Action—“In fifth grade, I won the school courtesy prize. In other words, I won an award for being polite. My brother, on the other hand, was considered the class comedian. We were very typically socialized as a “young lady” and a “boy being a boy.””

Transgender Children Living Openly Are Doing Well, Study Shows, on KQED—“New research finds that young transgender children who have “socially transitioned” — living their lives under the gender they identify with — had positive mental health outcomes.”

Melissa Harris-Perry and a Lesson on Saying “No,” on Feministing—“I celebrate her sharp response and her principled resolve–especially as a woman, especially as a Black woman–in a world where the demand to make ourselves smaller or distort our sense of self comes from all directions.”

For Matthew, on Homeschoolers Anonymous—“We could have had the same parents / we were homeschooled, using the same books / from the same publishers / we both learned that evolution was a lie / that the earth was created 6,000 years ago / maybe that’s why we both had such a hard time progressing.”