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Blackmailed with nudes, Nigerian lesbians find safety outside the closet

Thomson Reuters Foundation News
Thomson Reuters Foundation News

The online world is opening up LGBT+ Nigerians’ hidden lives – with gay-friendly websites and private groups offering anonymous spaces where they can come out and connect for the first time – but it is also exposing them to new kinds of abuse.

Posted in: News on 09/10/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Thrive not just survive: exploring Indigenous LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy invisibility

UNSW Sydney
UNSW Sydney

Marijke Bassani (left) with community members in the Cape York Peninsula. Her PhD project – a comprehensive cross-border study into the experiences of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy peoples within their communities and the law – is about “creating safer communities through building awareness and acceptance of diverse Indigenous genders and sexualities”.

Posted in: News on 09/09/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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How racism and classism affect natural ecosystems

The Conversation | D Dabravolskas/Shuuterstock
The Conversation | D Dabravolskas/Shuuterstock

In many cities around the world, environmental injustice has been dictated by structural racism. For example, in the last century, racial segregation in US cities led to extreme disparities in the quality and accessibility of health-promoting natural environments.

Posted in: News on 09/09/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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10 Reasons Why Anti-Racism Training Is Not The Problem

Forbes | R Annandale
Forbes | R Annandale

Bright idea: Look at the root causes.

Posted in: News on 09/09/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Pressley, Warren propose bill to use CDC to confront structural racism

WCVB5 | AP
WCVB5 | AP

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, together with Rep. Barbara Lee of California, announced their bill Thursday. It is called The Anti-Racism in Public Health Act.

Posted in: News on 09/09/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Recognising our common humanity might not be enough to prevent hatred

Psyche | L Towell/Magnum
Psyche | L Towell/Magnum

According to consensus opinion among psychologists and other commentators, members of outgroups are often viewed as closer to animals or machines than to fellow beings deserving of care. Moreover, these experts believe that dehumanisation lies at the heart of intergroup harm. Above: At the Murambi Genocide Memorial in Rwanda.

Posted in: News on 09/09/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Police and Affordable Housing Collide in Charleston

IN These Times | J Watson/AFP/Getty
IN These Times | J Watson/AFP/Getty

Despite the acute need for afford­able hous­ing, the Charleston Hous­ing Author­i­ty (CHA) said last month that it’s turn­ing over two pub­lic hous­ing units to the police depart­ment for a sub­sta­tion, even though there is an already-exist­ing police sta­tion near­by. The con­nec­tion between over-polic­ing and gen­tri­fi­ca­tion makes the police sub­sta­tion all-too antic­i­pat­ed, as over-polic­ing and increased sur­veil­lance is par­tic­u­lar­ly promi­nent as an area gen­tri­fies.

Posted in: News on 09/09/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The EU needs a new story on race and inclusion

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SE

Turning good intentions into credible and enforceable policies will be a challenge, however. And not just because of the EU’s previous lack of interest and experience in combating ethnic discrimination. Systemic racism in Europe runs far deeper than toxic far-right diatribes. It has seeped into much of the EU’s institutional discourse and policies. It cannot be wished away by inspiring speeches or noble resolutions.

Posted in: News on 09/09/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Critical and radical social work practice in neoliberal times

Transforming Society | dickcraft/iStock
Transforming Society | dickcraft/iStock

In the UK, professional social work came of age in the 1970s with the establishment of Social Services Departments. However, during the 1980s challenges arose from the rise and domination of neoliberalism and associated managerialism, the former seeing the market as the organising principle of social life, the latter employing business principles, practices and techniques to implement neoliberal goals within public services.

Posted in: News on 09/08/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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I’m Proud That My Union Just Urged the AFL-CIO to Kick Out Police Unions

In These Times | PJ Richards/AFP/Getty
In These Times | PJ Richards/AFP/Getty

No unions in Amer­i­ca have been active­ly malig­nant in the way that police unions have. They are large­ly respon­si­ble for the fact that it is so dif­fi­cult to remove and pros­e­cute bad cops. They endan­ger the pub­lic. Many police unions are also run by racists, and have been for a long time.

Posted in: News on 09/08/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Boarding school policy ‘comprehensively failing’ remote Indigenous students, study finds

The Guardian | W Quilliam
The Guardian | W Quilliam

Top End kids learning on-country: a report says the off-country boarding school system was a ‘revolving door’ for young people.

Posted in: News on 09/08/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Trump Is Inciting Racist Violence in Kenosha—And Democrats Are Complicit

In These Times | A Herman
In These Times | A Herman

Democrats are failing to articulate a clear moral vision that is opposed to Trump’s ultra-racist, law-and-order politics.

Posted in: News on 09/08/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Protests against police violence continue across the US

WSWS | N Berger/AP
WSWS | N Berger/AP

The corporate media has increasingly cast the protests as violent and aggressive and portrayed the police as responding to unprovoked attacks by demonstrators. This is belied by the facts. The Princeton report points out that between May 24 and August 22 there were more than 10,600 “demonstration events,” of which over 10,100, “or nearly 95 percent” were peaceful protests, while less than 570 involved “demonstrators engaging in violence.” The authors of the report noted that in demonstrations that did become violent, aggression was often instigated by right-wing militias and racist gangs such as the Three Percenters, the Ku Klux Klan, the Proud Boys, the Boogaloo bois and the New Mexico Civil Guard.

Posted in: News on 09/08/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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University of Toronto research to explore racism in health care during pandemic

msn/The Canadian Press | UT
msn/The Canadian Press | UT

The national project was launched by Dr. Roberta Timothy (above), an Assistant Professor with the University of Toronto’s Institute for Pandemics.

Posted in: News on 09/08/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Targeted

Tampa Bay Times | Pasco Sheriff's Office/N Bedi
Tampa Bay Times | Pasco Sheriff's Office/N Bedi

First the Sheriff’s Office generates lists of people it considers likely to break the law, based on arrest histories, unspecified intelligence and arbitrary decisions by police analysts. Then it sends deputies to find and interrogate anyone whose name appears, often without probable cause, a search warrant or evidence of a specific crime

Posted in: News on 09/08/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Generations of progress for women and girls could be lost to COVID pandemic, UN chief warns

UN Women
UN Women
Posted in: News on 09/07/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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OPINION: Homeless sweeps and civil rights

48 Hills
48 Hills

Local governments routinely violate the law to move unhoused people out of sight.

Posted in: News on 09/07/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Sent Home to Die

ProPublica | R Lavalais
ProPublica | R Lavalais

In New Orleans, hospitals sent patients infected with the coronavirus into hospice facilities or back to their families to die at home, in some cases discontinuing treatment even as relatives begged them to keep trying.

Posted in: News on 09/07/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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It’s time to hear what adolescents think of mindfulness in schools

Aeon | T Pilston/Panos Pictures
Aeon | T Pilston/Panos Pictures

To them, mindfulness practices of feet-feeling and belly-breathing feel abstract, irrelevant and counterintuitive. They have many ideas about what their school can do to help them, but it seems like no one is listening.

Posted in: News on 09/07/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Universities fear online students face regime reprisals

UWN | iStock
UWN | iStock

The board of directors of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), in a statement last month, highlighted a series of incidents involving conferencing app Zoom, widely used for online classes, noting that “data originating in the United States during some Zoom sessions was directed through some of the company’s China-based servers, making participants potentially subject to state surveillance and-or legal action”.

Posted in: News on 09/07/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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SCIE report sets out ‘three shifts’ needed to reform social care

Care Home Professional
Care Home Professional

SCIE chief executive Kathryn Smith (pictured) said: “Since I became a care worker at 16, I have never known a worse period for social care. Every day, as more reports came in about deaths that could have been prevented, lack of testing kit and personal protective equipment, or local authorities and providers facing financial ruin, I’ve felt a sense of despair.

Posted in: News on 09/07/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Identification and treatment key in responding to COVID-19 health anxiety in children

SD | UB
SD | UB

Crucially not all children and young people will experience or develop health anxiety, and many have shown remarkable resilience in the face of an unprecedented health crisis. Yet for some, particularly those who are already vulnerable to worrying and anxiety, this year’s tumultuous events are likely to have significantly and negatively impacted them.

Posted in: News on 09/07/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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‘Be bold and report gender-related violence’ – Social Welfare Director

GhanaWeb
GhanaWeb

Madam Marian Mensah, the Director of Social Welfare

Posted in: News on 09/06/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Tuk-tuk warriors: the abuse victims who rode to women’s rescue in lockdown India

Thomson Reuters Foundation | ActionAid
Thomson Reuters Foundation | ActionAid

In Bhopal, abuse survivors put their new skills as rickshaw drivers to work under lockdown as domestic violence cases increased

Posted in: News on 09/06/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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America at hungers edge

NYT | BA Kenneally
NYT | BA Kenneally
Posted in: News on 09/06/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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COVID-19 has likely tripled depression rate, study finds

SD | BU/SCOPE of Pain
SD | BU/SCOPE of Pain
Posted in: News on 09/06/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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What Can Mayors Do When the Police Stop Doing Their Jobs?

ProPublica | L Jackson/Reuters
ProPublica | L Jackson/Reuters

A New York City police officer walking by the words “Black Lives Matter” painted on a street in Brooklyn

Posted in: News on 09/06/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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As Hong Kong’s academic year begins, it’s unclear what can legally be said in a classroom — and whether student activism is a thing of the past

CNN
CNN

Hong Kong has some of the best universities in Asia. But in a growing climate of fear and self censorship, it is now unclear what can legally be said and taught in a classroom — and whether student activism, both on campus and off, may become a thing of the past.

Posted in: News on 09/06/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Pathologizing Desire

Boston Review | Pikist
Boston Review | Pikist

Current contempt for age gap relationships serves to strip both men and women of their agency.

Posted in: News on 09/06/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Hungary Continues Attacks on Academic Freedom

HRW | L Gall
HRW | L Gall

Students barricading themselves at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, displaying banners reading, “We stand up for the freedom of our university” and “We won’t stay silent,” Budapest, Hungary, September 2, 2020.

Posted in: News on 09/05/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Eviction Moratorium Delays Crisis Until January, When Tenants Will Owe Back Rent

truthout | MM Santiago/Getty
truthout | MM Santiago/Getty

Demonstrators gather in front of a U.S. Marshall’s office during a “No Evictions, No Police” national day of action on September 1, 2020, in New York City

Posted in: News on 09/05/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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University of Utah students call for abolition of campus police department

KUTV | C Flores
KUTV | C Flores

Student organizers say while the U hired a new police chief, a chief safety officer, and has replaced most of the officers on its police force, the changes aren’t enough. When it comes to student safety, they don’t think police officers should be the automatic first responders.

Posted in: News on 09/05/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Discrimination May Increase Risk of Severe Alcohol Use in Minorities

Psychiatric News
Psychiatric News
Posted in: News on 09/05/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Trump Wants to Punish US Cities That Don’t Pledge Allegiance to Him

truthout | M Ngan/AFP/Getty
truthout | M Ngan/AFP/Getty

Trump seems to believe that the more pain he can inflict on the U.S.’s urban centers, and the more liberal outrage he can generate in the run-up to the election, the more he will drive his white suburban and rural base to the polls.

Posted in: News on 09/05/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Insights into behavior during Chimney Tops 2 Fire could improve evacuation planning Date: September 2, 2020

SD | NIST
SD | NIST

To understand what motivates people to evacuate during a wildfire, researchers surveyed affected residents. Their analysis of the responses identified key factors at play, including risk perception, gender, warnings from trusted sources, and evacuation plans.

Posted in: News on 09/05/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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There’s no such thing as a “left behind” town

NewStatesman | Getty
NewStatesman | Getty

The idea that Britain’s smaller communities are all disadvantaged in the same way is politically convenient – but it doesn’t work. Above: Port Talbot

Posted in: News on 09/05/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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New online conference rules raise academic freedom fears

UWN | HRIC
UWN | HRIC

Human Rights in China (HRIC), an NGO, said in a statement last week that “in their scope and likely impact, the requirements raise serious concerns about restrictions on academic freedom, and, more specifically about non-compliance with a wide range of international human rights standards, including freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of association and the right to access and disseminate information”.

Posted in: News on 09/04/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Help for the Money Anxieties of Older LGBT Adults

next avenue
next avenue

How the new, free, SAGECents app aims to get users on track

Posted in: News on 09/04/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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10 Social Security Myths That Refuse to Die

AARP | iStock/Getty
AARP | iStock/Getty

The program is going broke, the retirement age is 65, and other common misconceptions

Posted in: News on 09/04/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Loan Company That Sued Thousands of Low-Income Latinos During the Pandemic

ProPublica | Opportun
ProPublica | Opportun

A monthslong investigation revealed that Oportun Inc., which was founded to help Latino immigrants build credit, routinely uses lawsuits to intimidate a vulnerable population into keeping up with high-interest loan payments — even amid COVID-19.

Posted in: News on 09/04/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Grief Circling

Dissent | A Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty
Dissent | A Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty

A family sits shiva, a traditional Jewish time of mourning for the dead when friends and family gather, remotely on Zoom in April.

Posted in: News on 09/04/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Nevada Evictions Paused as Health Crisis Continues

PNS | publicdomainpictures/Pixabay
PNS | publicdomainpictures/Pixabay

Dr. Nicholas Barr, an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said the city has been one of the hardest hit by unemployment due to COVID-19, and another crisis needs to be avoided.

Posted in: News on 09/04/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Abuse victims hope Jamaica election brings long-awaited women’s shelters

Thomson Reuters Foundation
Thomson Reuters Foundation

As Jamaicans head to the polls thousands of abuse victims hope the next government will open the island’s first state-run shelters for women suffering domestic abuse

Posted in: News on 09/04/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Councils failing to allocate welfare fund cash

tfn |  Perth and Kinross Council Perth & Kinross Council
tfn | Perth and Kinross Council Perth & Kinross Council

Scotland’s local authorities are not making full use of Scottish Welfare Fund (SWF) money provided by the Scottish Government to alleviate extreme financial hardship, according to analysis published by the Poverty and Inequality Commission.

Posted in: News on 09/03/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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“Defund Police” Doesn’t Mean Hire Private Guns — But Cities Are Doing Just That

truthout | TA Clary/AFP/Getty
truthout | TA Clary/AFP/Getty

Private security guards with specially trained dogs stand in front of a boarded up and razor wired Saks Fifth Avenue amid protests against the death of George Floyd on June 3, 2020, in New York City.

Posted in: News on 09/03/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Some states began social distancing too early

Futurity | WUSTL
Futurity | WUSTL

“Because there is no preventive vaccine and because there are few potentially effective treatments, recent reductions in new cases and deaths must be due, in large part, to the social interventions delivered by states,” says Professor Shenyang Guo.

Posted in: News on 09/03/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Improving pandemic mental health across Colorado

Eureka Alert! | CSU
Eureka Alert! | CSU

The project, which is a collaboration among the psychology department’s Counseling Psychology and Masters in Addiction Counseling programs, the School of Social Work, and the Colorado School of Public Health, will partner with agencies in the area and across the state.

Posted in: News on 09/03/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice

NYT | E Scotti/Getty
NYT | E Scotti/Getty

The credentialist prejudice is a symptom of meritocratic hubris. By 2016, many working people chafed at the sense that well-schooled elites looked down on them with condescension. This complaint was not without warrant. Survey research bears out what many working-class voters intuit: At a time when racism and sexism are out of favor (discredited though not eliminated), credentialism is the last acceptable prejudice.

Posted in: News on 09/03/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Look beyond opioids to solve national substance use epidemic

OHSU | seekvectorlogo
OHSU | seekvectorlogo

A new study published reveals that three-quarters of participants in an inpatient addiction intervention program came into the hospital using more than one substance. The findings suggests that a singular focus on opioids may do more harm than good if doctors overlook the complexity of each individual’s actual substance use.

Posted in: News on 09/03/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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My Friend Is Suicidal: What Should I Do?

NAMI
NAMI

Suicide isn’t an easy topic to think about, let alone discuss — especially with someone you suspect is suicidal. But it is incredibly important that we do talk about it and get our loved ones the help they need to prevent them from reaching a point of crisis.

Posted in: News on 09/03/2020 | Link to this post on IFP |
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