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Don’t Tell Us Marching Doesn’t Matter

Cissy White — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:32:14 +0000

As we arrived at the Common Beth remembered summers when we stripped the girls down to diapers at the Frog Pond. I thought of the bouncy ground at the playground where the girls chased, climbed and crawled. We were monkey bar moms spotting each other in the days when there wasn’t a minute to pee, […]

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Dear Bloomingdale’s: Please Show This at Your Next All-Staff Meeting

Cissy White — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 18:07:39 +0000

People have asked what the approval process is at Bloomingdale’s and if anyone lost their job over the now pulled offensive and and poorly apologized for offensive ad which ran earlier this week and was written about here. I don’t know how many departments were involved or how high up the approval process went. But even without […]

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It’s Not the Starbucks Ad I’m Seeing Red Over: Rape Culture is a Bloomindale’s Ad

Cissy White — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 18:23:17 +0000

“Spike your best friend’s egg nog when they are not looking” reads the tag line of the Bloomingdale’s ad in a recent holiday catalog. A woman is looking away, laugh smiling at someone while a man is leering at her. The words are between them. Are you f’n kidding me? What exactly is being sold […]

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The I’m Sorry Letter You Won’t Get

Cissy White — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 11:36:23 +0000

To the Women on the cover of New York Magazine and those represented by the empty chair: I’m sorry you have to have read the word “alleged” so often about experiences you know happened to you. I’m sorry that your real-life experiences are not considered proof. I’m sorry that so many worried about Cosby’s legacy, rights and […]

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Why Don’t We Care About Real Violence as Much as Staged Fights?

Cissy White — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:42:36 +0000

I don’t plan on going through my day recounting the Mayweather and Pacquiao fight or discussing if it was as exciting as expected with the lack of direct hits, punches or knock outs. Not when the nation has just heard the news of three teens who were kidnapped, raped, starved, chained and held captive for over a […]

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