Skeptic Review: Feature Stories

Smith College Under the Microscope: A New Video Channel Explores a Hyper-Racially Charged Environment

Image credit: Smith College, President Kathleen McCartney. When Jodi Shaw, a Smith College alum and current administrative staff member at…

3 years ago

Moral Panic: What is it & are we currently in the midst of one?

Illustration: Adramelech, from the 1863 edition of Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire infernal — Source. Remember the Satanic Panic of the…

4 years ago

Transgender & locked up: A case study on prison policies & life on the inside

Corporeal prison, by Erik Pevernagie, oil on canvas, 2004 In 2011, then 16-year-old Demitrius Minor stabbed his 69-year old foster…

4 years ago

Sarah Braasch to participate in “The Call,” a new documentary by C-Line Films

Filmmaker Chico Colvard, courtesy C-Line Films Filmmaker Chico Colvard accidentally shot his sister in the leg when he was a…

4 years ago

The Dissident Right: What is it and why should we care?

In my ongoing research on Antifascism and NeoFascism in the U.S., I have had contact with certain white identity Twitter…

4 years ago

Is this racism? Or is this just a guy in an elevator I don’t know? #NappingWhileBlack at Yale University

Anyone following the Sarah Braasch "Napping While Black" incident at Yale University has probably heard that Braasch had indeed called…

4 years ago

Tweet others as you would like to be Tweeted: Twitter Etiquette

At the end of 2018, Sarah Haider, Executive Director of Ex-Muslims of North America, announced that she was making a…

4 years ago

Sarah Braasch, Yale University, Investigation of Bias and How a Similar Incident at Smith College was Resolved

UPDATE 1.3.2020 Link to post-hearing legal brief filed with Connecticut Freedom Of Information Commission on behalf of Sarah Braasch https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzOJKJMkQ_aja1BoVUNvbjJsZFpEUXQzbHU0YVdNd2xQMlA4/view?usp=sharing…

4 years ago

My Divorce Attorney Fired Me Without Due Process

I normally don’t write about my personal life, but in this instance I think it’s important for me and for…

5 years ago

Yale University retains prominent attorney to defend FOIA request made by Yale student Sarah Braasch

Sarah Braasch, made unintentionally famous by the “napping while black” incident at Yale University on May 8, 2018, made an…

5 years ago