On Our Radar

• This week's homework: check out an excerpt from Professor Melissa Harris-Perry's Sister Citizen on Michelle Obama and the gendered and racialized conceptions of her role as first lady. Extra credit for tying it in to current political discussion!
• Margaret Cho defends any "strong language" she might use on Twitter.
• Peep the new anti-rape culture campaign that focuses squarely on men preventing rape.
• Check out this piece on women leaders in the civil rights movement and see if the museum exhibition is coming to your town.
• Residents of Minnesota state district 61B, say hello to Susan Allen, the first openly gay American Indian woman elected to any state legislature.
• Where's the news coverage of the New Year's Florida abortion clinic firebombing?

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