La radicalisation des intellectuels noirs. Les termes du débat sur le racisme ont rapidement évolué aux États-Unis.
Le Devoir
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Surviving a Failed Pregnancy
The medical ordeal no one wants to talk about By Vanessa Gregory Harper’s For eight weeks, the pregnancy seemed normal. I was thirty-six, and thus supposedly at a higher risk for everything, but I’d had no spotting, no unusual pain. I learned that something might be wrong at my first prenatal appointment, even though that,…
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10 Heartwrenching Stories Of The LGBT Community Before The 20th Century
Debra Kelly ListVerse The idea of someone being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender is certainly nothing new, but today, well into the 21st century, there’s still a huge amount of controversy on how legitimate their relationships are. And this isn’t a new controversy, either, as people have faced centuries of persecution for who they are.
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(France) Quand la gauche se méfiait des femmes…
Valeurs actuelles Avril 1945. Les femmes auxquelles de Gaulle a accordé le droit de vote l’exercent pour la première fois aux municipales. Non sans donner des sueurs froides à certains partis de gauche qui craignent de les voir suivre des mots d’ordre “cléricaux”…
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Les camés de l’été #1: Dennis Hopper sous cocaïne
Derrière le motard sauvage d’«Easy Rider», héros des sixties, se cachait un total drogué, qui faisait venir des hélicos chargés de poudre et se soûlait à l’after-shave. Bibliobs
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Les syndicats sont contre, des politiciens sont réticents; pour comprendre ce qui s’en vient avec les deux traités de libre échange qui se négocient prétentement: le Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership et leTrans-Pacific Partnership
Trade-Agreement Troubles By James Surowiecki, New Yorker. In 2012, Australia implemented tough anti-tobacco regulations, requiring that all cigarettes be sold in plain, logo-free brown packages dominated by health warnings. Philip Morris Asia filed suit, claiming that this violated its intellectual-property rights and would damage its investments. The company sued Australia in domestic court and lost….
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Poulidor Premier (1.33.29)
Il a figuré parmi les plus grands cyclistes du monde pendant presque deux décennies, sans jamais remporter le Tour de France. Paradoxalement, ses défaites l’ont fait entrer dans la légende. Depuis la fin de sa carrière en 1977, « Poupou » devance toujours ses adversaires dans le coeur du public. Réalisation : Patrick Jeudy (France, 2015)
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L’aventure libérale d’Honoré Beaugrand
Aux sources de l’actuelle fragilité du progressisme québécois Le Devoir
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Twenty-first century yoga is female. Look around the classes. There are a few men on planet yoga, but they are massively outnumbered by women. Yoga is a women’s thing – isn’t it?
Feminist Times But the practices all these women are doing were created by men, and for men. Some medieval yoga manuals advise yogis to avoid women, for fear of distraction or pollution. Hatha yoga (yoga that works through physical postures to modify mental activities) was a boys’ game, and women were not invited. Medieval hatha…
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A Loss for Words
Can a dying language be saved? By Judith Thurman New Yorker It is a singular fate to be the last of one’s kind. That is the fate of the men and women, nearly all of them elderly, who are—like Marie Wilcox, of California; Gyani Maiya Sen, of Nepal; Verdena Parker, of Oregon; and Charlie Mungulda,…
