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Why Did Facebook and Instagram Ban #Sikh on the Anniversary of an Infamous Massacre?

…able. The very same platform that Zuckerberg preached would hold the powers-that-be accountable had silenced the voices of an entire community during a painful time. The ban was ultimately lifted by Instagram and Facebook roughly 8 hours after it was discovered as the Sikh community kept pushing for answers. Despite the removal of the ban, Sikh community leaders and organizations are speaking with Facebook and Instagram to uncover the reason behin…

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Making Muffins and Troops for Spiritual Warfare: The Godly Women of Instagram

…en generally don’t perform overtly traditional femininity. However, the God-and-guns Christian right, with its aggressions and resentments, depends not only on symbols of traditional masculinity, but also on those of the traditionally feminine. Motherhood is central to many nationalist ideologies, since the future of the nation depends on a mythical identity that must be passed down through generations. The rhetoric of white Christian nationalism…

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Exvangelical TikTokkers Aren’t a Sign of the End Times, But Here’s What Evangelicals Need to Understand About ‘The Falling Away’

…from the presuppositional assumptions of dominionist theologies to the zero-sum “pro-life” political calculus. Each tactic reminds the believer that their acceptance is conditional, and that they must keep their heart on a swivel and question their belonging. This constant questioning and rejection of other forms of authority, autonomy, and lived human experience is precisely what deconstruction communities challenge. By rejecting reform or claimi…

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The Bindi Isn’t Indie

…er in a sari even if it’s designer.” *** I’m showing Kat the #bindi tag on Instagram. “Now that’s just tacky,” she points at a girl with a crescent moon-shaped bindi. She’s tagged her selfie with #wiccan and #satanschild, among other things. “Wiccans work really hard to fight the assumption that they’re Satanists just because they practice witchcraft,” she explains. “Then girls like this play dress-up and set the whole religion back a step.” This…

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Pretty Girls Like Trap Church: A Movement at 2 Chainz’s Atlanta Pink House

…ilies. Whereas I’m in a position where I can deal with public policy and on-the-ground issues.” When listening to “Pretty Girls Like Trap Music,” which many are calling 2 Chainz’s magnum opus, one is transported to his formative years in College Park, Atlanta and follows his journey to the top of the rap game. Addressing his mother’s problems with addiction, his father’s drug dealing and the deaths of close friends throughout the album, he conclud…

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#NamaSlay, Or How Black Women Are Using Trap Yoga as a Mode of Spiritual Resistance

…ore affordable options in a city where yoga—a practice that requires little-to-no equipment—somehow averages about twenty bucks a class, a barrier to many. Polk hopes to combat the pop culture image of yoga as a pastime of the privileged, and trap yoga is a vehicle for that. When the studio first opened, it was mostly USC students, but now she sees more people from the neighborhood and more people of color, particularly women of color. “Given what…

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

…l, an Al-Jazeera producer who read my original post suggested adding ‘Iftar-B-Q,’ which is like lighting things on fire, except you’re delusional and starved of nutrition. Only good can come of this. Khutzpah: ‘Can you believe the Imam went on and on for 45 minutes in his Friday sermon (Khutbah)? How’s he not dying of thirst?’ 1. Friday is the Muslim Sunday (er, Saturday), except it’s spelled differently. 2. The Imam probably died in his office wh…

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The Women’s March, Anti-Semitism, and ‘The Jewish Farrakhan’

…Hurok Enterprises, causing a fire that injured 13 employees and killed a 27-year-old employee, Iris Kones, from smoke inhalation. Hurok was an impresario who often booked Russian acts to perform in America. The bombing, widely believed to be the work of the JDL, resulted in many of those who disagreed with Kahane, but who defended his right to speak, distancing themselves from Kahane and the JDL. It was in many ways, his “Waterloo.” But he still r…

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Christian ‘Purity’ Guru’s Loss of Faith May Signal a Coming Reckoning For Conservative Christianity

…promoted a kind of “prosperity gospel” for romance that smacked of a “money-back guarantee”-style sales tactic that promised readers that if they followed the chaste courtship formula, they would find their spouse and live happily ever after. Readers, some of whom have posted on social media under the hashtags #KissShameGoodbye and #NoShameMovement, say this formula served to drive a wedge between single men and women in churches where courtship h…

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