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Jacqueline S. Homan
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Lack of Pretty Privilege Means Access Denied

Privilege is the way society accommodates you, but not others. — Conventional physical attractiveness is real currency for both women and men. Pretty people often get a free pass for being rude, mean, inconsiderate and incompetent because natural beauty is the best safety net there is. People who won the genetic lottery for good complexions, great hair, symmetrical nicely shaped facial…

You Tube

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Lack of Pretty Privilege Means Access Denied
Lack of Pretty Privilege Means Access Denied
You Tube

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The Rise of the Grifter Class As the Deus Ex Machina For An Economy That No Longer Works For Most People

If you can’t spot the mark, then you’re the mark. — Isn’t it funny that difficult economic times bring armies of success gurus and “self-help” experts out of the woodwork who claim that if you just buy their programs you’ll be able to fix your life? After a really bad year for the stock market that wrecked many people’s retirement accounts…

Economy

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The Rise of the Grifter Class As the Deus Ex Machina For An Economy That No Longer Works For Most…
The Rise of the Grifter Class As the Deus Ex Machina For An Economy That No Longer Works For Most…
Economy

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How ‘Head and Master’ Laws Impoverished Women

Like most writers, I enjoy reading the works of fellow writers. One article stood out because it described an incident that I immediately recognized as a throwback to the era of ‘Head and Master’ laws in the US. Ah yes, the good old ‘Head and Master laws.’ I remember those…

Social Justice

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How ‘Head and Master’ Laws Impoverished Women
How ‘Head and Master’ Laws Impoverished Women
Social Justice

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Published in Startup Stash

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Societal Collapse And How We Got Here

Britain is fast surpassing the US as an example of social collapse among wealthy developed western nations—largely due to its politically hard-right turn, following the American example. Economically, Britain is poised to become the most far-Right country in the world and the damage has already been done in terms of…

Economic Collapse

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Economic Collapse

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Student Debt, Poverty, and Lack of Jobs For Many With Degrees Is Not the Fault of People Getting “Useless” Degrees

The other day on Facebook, one of my friends, Mike Garrone, who graduated from high school in the 1990s, posted some inconvenient truths about the student debt crisis to challenge the victim-blaming of “they can’t get jobs to repay their loans because they got useless degrees” and “they’re buying new…

Student Loans

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Student Debt, Poverty, and Lack of Jobs For Many With Degrees Is Not the Fault of People Getting…
Student Debt, Poverty, and Lack of Jobs For Many With Degrees Is Not the Fault of People Getting…
Student Loans

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Revisiting the Human Casualties of Fascism and Ethnic Tensions Before, During and After the Breakup of Yugoslavia

I read an article the other day on Medium that touched on a subject most people still struggle to understand: the horrific, bloody Balkan wars of the 1990s. — Revisiting the death of Yugoslavia — a crime by any other name The destruction and disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, culminating in the 78-day air waged by NATO against…johnwight1.medium.com In 1984, I was 17 years old. It was the year that the winter Olympics were held in Sarajevo, a cosmopolitan Yugoslavian city which was known as “the ‘Jerusalem’ of Eastern Europe.” Yugoslavia was one country with two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, and six republics surrounded by…

History

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Revisiting the Human Casualties of Fascism and Ethnic Tensions Before, During and After the Breakup…
Revisiting the Human Casualties of Fascism and Ethnic Tensions Before, During and After the Breakup…
History

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Published in Dispatch From the Trenches

·Jan 22

January Is Human Trafficking Awareness Month But the Problem Isn’t Awareness—It’s How Survivors Are Treated

Another writer on Medium was shocked at the callous responses he got from conservatives regarding the arrests of 10 year old sex trafficking victims in the US—as a survivor myself, I‘m not surprised. — I Thought I Couldn’t Be Any More Disgusted by Conservative Behavior, Then I Wrote an Article on… The responses gave me a new understanding of right-wing misogynyaninjusticemag.com Hold my beer. As a 55 year old survivor of generational poverty and child sex trafficking, I usually don’t engage with economically privileged non-survivors who write about prostitution debating whether or not it should be legal. But that article wasn’t the usual privilege-on-parade clickbait piece. The writer is disgusted that…

Social Justice

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January Is Human Trafficking Awareness Month But the Problem Isn’t Awareness—It’s How Survivors Are…
January Is Human Trafficking Awareness Month But the Problem Isn’t Awareness—It’s How Survivors Are…
Social Justice

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Jan 14

I’m not grateful to the US for all its opportunities because they were soul-sucking.

You Now Need $4 Million To Retire In America: From The Land Of Opportunities To Miserable Survival.
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Livia Dabs RN,MSc

Congratulations!

Congratulations! You have just learned what America's homegrown poor have already known for decades. The cost of survival is far lower than you think—as many poor disabled (and elderly) Americans have to survive on with SSI, which just got a raise up to $900-ish/mo. The cost of living in luxury—and…

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Published in Dispatch From the Trenches

·Jan 10

Memories of a Discontinued Childhood Favorite: Franco-American MacaroniOs

My favorite treat as a four-year-old was an oldie but goodie—Franco-American MacaroniOs — Ask any Gen-Xer born between 1965 and 1972 about foods we remember from our earliest childhood years, and almost all will include Franco-American SpaghettiOs and Franco-American Macaroni and Cheese in their list. …

Nostalgia

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Memories of a Discontinued Childhood Favorite: Franco-American MacaroniOs
Memories of a Discontinued Childhood Favorite: Franco-American MacaroniOs
Nostalgia

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Jan 10

‘I’m a Strong, Independent Man Who Don’t Need No Woman!’
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Michelle Teheux

Good article. Along the same vein of its broader topic, I'll just drop this here:

Good article. Along the same vein of its broader topic, I'll just drop this here: https://medium.com/dispatch-from-the-trenches/how-head-and-master-laws-impoverished-women-3538f8e3b98

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Good article. Along the same vein of its broader topic, I'll just drop this here:

https://medium.com/dispatch-from-the-trenches/how-head-and-master-laws-impoverished-women-3538f8e3b98

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Jacqueline S. Homan

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Human rights activist, researcher, writer and gadfly.

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