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| Amazon Watch invites you to join us and other indigenous activists and leaders for a life-changing sustainability and social change event.
The National Bioneers Conference is the original whole-systems forum of innovation and collaboration for social, cultural and environmental resilience. BioCon speakers have included Bill McKibben, Jane Goodall, Marina Silva, Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Gloria Steinem and Paul Hawken, among many other luminaries. The conference also prides itself on introducing audiences to some of the most innovative voices yet to be discovered. This year, visionaries and change-makers – including Danny Glover, Tom Goldtooth, Annie Leonard and our very own Atossa Soltani – will propose, debate and initiate solutions to global bio-cultural and socio-ecological issues. BioCon talks and activities reflect the event’s theme of Turning Vision Into Action. It opens with Nalini Nadkarni, known as the “Queen of the Forest Canopy” for her extensive scientific studies of unique rainforest biology across four continents. Nalini will share what complex rainforest biodiversity can teach us about human dynamics. Atossa and I will join amazing women leaders and friends including Anna Lappé, Lynn Twist and Osprey Orielle Lake in panels at the conference entitled, Women as Democracy Builders and Mobilizing Women for Climate Solutions. We are also honored to once again help facilitate the participation of indigenous partners from the Amazon who will share a Call from the Amazon and join indigenous allies in discussions in the acclaimed Bioneers Indigenous Forum, which features exciting workshops and discussions on major issues, struggles, and successes in Indian Country and in indigenous communities globally. Now in its 24th year, BioCon offers access to inspiring keynotes, provocative panels and workshops, and networking sessions with others who are committed to progressive action in restoring people and planet. Don’t miss it! I look forward to seeing you at the Conference! For our future,
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Tag Archives: Gloria Steinem
Psychology Today asks “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive?” …from Change.org
A week ago, the magazine Psychology Today published an article titled “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?” on its website. Within hours, following widespread outrage and criticism, the post disappeared.
Colleagues and peers of Satoshi Kanazawa, the article’s author, have since analyzed his same data and unanimously (and unsurprisingly) found his conclusions in error.
Yet Psychology Today has remained silent. They have refused to apologize or even explain why they published the article.
Articles like Kanazawa’s are more than offensive or spurious—they’re deeply harmful because they promote racist and sexist stereotypes as science.
That’s why documentary filmmaker Aishah Simmons and academic Alisa Bierria are leading a petition on Change.org to call on Psychology Today to apologize and take transparent steps to prevent the publication of racist and sexist material in the future. Click here to sign Aishah and Alisa’s petition.
Kanazawa’s article never would have survived a thorough and responsible editorial process. In fact, the author himself doesn’t stand up to review.
Kanazawa has a history of pushing discredited research and is particularly notorious for making meritless claims about race and gender. (He is also known as the mind behind the much-mocked book Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters.)
In an attempt to defend previous publications, Kanazawa wrote, “If what I say is wrong (because it is illogical or lacks credible scientific evidence), then it is my problem. If what I say offends you, it is your problem.”
Well, as Khadijah Britton of Scientific American put it, “Satoshi Kanazawa has a problem.” So does Psychology Today.
Prominent women’s rights advocates, including Gloria Steinem and Beverly Guy Sheftall, former President of the National Women’s Studies Association, have already declared their support for the campaign.
Please click here to add your name to theirs:
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