Saturday Link Love: Abusive Behavior, Racial Bias, and Dress Codes

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.

Trump Is Triggering Domestic Violence Survivors With Textbook Abusive Behavior, on Huffington Post—“It’s been seven years since Lisette Johnson’s abusive husband shot her and then turned the gun on himself, but nowadays, whenever she turns on the TV, she is confronted with a man who sounds just like him.”

This scrap of cloth is one of the saddest artifacts at new DC museum, on McClatchyDC—“In an easily overlooked corner of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, dwarfed by surrounding exhibits, is a yellowed cloth sack.”

Bias Isn’t Just A Police Problem, It’s A Preschool Problem, on nprEd—“If implicit bias can play a role on our preschool reading rugs and in our classrooms’ cozy corners, it no doubt haunts every corner of our society.”

Black communities: overpoliced for petty crimes, ignored for major ones, in Los Angeles Times—“And then imagine how you’d feel as the cops looked at you, and your family, and your friends, and your whole town, and said, we knew you were scum.”

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS PUSH FOR A GENDER-NEUTRAL DRESS CODE—AND WIN, on Bitch Media—“When she was in seventh grade, Sophia Carlson and her friends noticed an annoying pattern at Irvington School in Portland, Oregon.”

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