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181) Buck breaking
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Buck Breaking is a documentary film that explores the history of sexual exploitation of Black people by the dominant society. The film particularly covers the taboo subject of sexual exploitation of Black males throughout history. The film Buck Breaking draws parallels between ancient forms of this sexual exploitation, to the modern forms of buck breaking being used on Black people today. The film shows the correlation between the historic exploitation...
182) Crusher is coming!
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Pete gets rid of his "baby toys" and hopes to impress his friend Crusher, a school football hero, when he visits after school, but Crusher ends up babysitting Pete's baby sister--and seems to enjoy it.
183) Hermana de fuego
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Blair Chandler amaba a un hombre que significaba para ella, a la vez, pasión y desafío: el doctor Lee Westfield. ©l era el prometido de su bella hermana Houston, a quien llamaban Princesa de Hielo. El carácter ardiente de Blair podía llevarla a cumplir sus mas ansiados sueños, pero un enigma separaría a los jovenes amantes. Algunas noches, Lee desaparecía y regresaba exhausto y perturbado. Su silencio ponía en peligro la pasión que los unía....
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In 2013, seventeen-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons took her own life. The Halifax teenager had been gang-raped a year and a half earlier by her classmates and labeled a "slut" as a result. Despite transferring schools many times, she could not escape constant cyber harassment and in-person bullying. Rehtaeh's is not the only story like this to make headlines in recent years. Why is the sexual shaming of girls and women, especially sexual assault victims,...
185) Nightingale
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"At seventeen, June Hardie is everything a young woman in 1951 shouldn't be--independent, rebellious, a dreamer. June longs to travel, to attend college and to write the dark science fiction stories that consume her waking hours. But her parents only care about making June a better young woman. Her mother grooms her to be a perfect little homemaker while her father pushes her to marry his business partner's domineering son. When June resists, her...
186) Educational equity
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"If children are the future, the importance of educating them cannot be overvalued. Why, then, is access to quality education in the US consistently under debate? The US is known as the Land of Opportunity, but the truth is that many children are unable to meet their potential simply because of educational inequities. The viewpoints in this resource examine the difference between equality and equitability; issues such as funding disparities, impacts...
187) The prettiest
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When a list appears online ranking the top fifty prettiest girls in the eighth grade, everything turns upside down. Eve Hoffman, ranked number one, can't ignore how everyone is suddenly talking about her looks. Sophie, the most popular girl in school, feels lower than ever when she's bullied for being ranked number two. Nessa Flores-Brady didn't even make the list, but she doesn't care -- or does she? The three girls ban together to find out who made...
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Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
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"Es un manifiesto feminista que denuncia el malestar que sienten las mujeres desde la infancia hasta la edad adulta en una sociedad que no las perdona. Este manifiesto vio la luz en forma de fanzine en 2014. Despues de venderse varios cientos de copias, la obra renace como un libro ilustrado con un texto enriquecido y apoyado por ilustraciones realistas y poderosas. Por que a las chicas les duele la barriga? ha sido concebido para provocar el debate,...
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"A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women's sports and the controversy surrounding trans athletes by a leading LGBTQ+ sports journalist. For decades women have been playing competitive sports thanks in large part to the protective cover of Title IX. Since passage of that law, the number of women participating in sports and the level of competition in high school, college, and professionally, has risen dramatically. In Fair Play,...
192) Go with the flow
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"Sophomores Abby, Brit, Christine, and Sasha are fed up. Hazelton High never has enough tampons. Or pads. Or adults who will listen. Sick of an administration that puts football before female health, the girls confront a world that shrugs--or worse, squirms--at the thought of a menstruation revolution. They band together to make a change. Its no easy task, especially while grappling with everything from crushes to trig to JV track but they have each...
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Enero Demico es una joven curiosa que vive en una extensa mansión llena de objetos y tesoros peculiares. Como la pupila del rico Sr. Locke, se siente un poco distinta a todo aquello que la rodea. Entre todos los artefactos que habitan la casa, Enero descubrirá un maravilloso libro: un libro que la llevará a otros mundos y que cuenta una historia repleta de puertas secretas, de amor, aventura y peligro. Cada vez que pase una de sus páginas se le...
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"A play-by-play of the political forces (both right and left) and media culture that vilified Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign, from cultural critic and feminist scholar Susan Bordo. The Destruction of Hillary Clintonis an answer to the question we've all been asking: How did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, and admired candidate--whose victory would have been as historic as Barack Obama's--come to be seen as a...
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