How to Make Your Memes Less Racist

Just issues, news, and other stuff that matters to you [Fusion] September 14, 2016 Unless you’re made of coffee, we assume by Wednesday you probably need a boost ☕. So, starting with the heartwarming, a NJ church group is planning [to help resettle Syrian refugees with special needs]; women at the White House [stemmed the tide of “manterrupting]”; a 15-year-old girl [created our new favorite emoji]; Trump inspired not one [but two rap songs]; and Chelsea Manning’s hunger strike will [finally come to a close]. In less uplifting news, [this high school football player]was threatened with awful messages for protesting the national anthem, [yet another person] was punched in the face by a Trump supporter, California [vetoed the tampon tax bill], autopilot potentially [killed a person in China], and the Dakota Access pipeline demonstrators [faced off against police in riot gear]. Meanwhile, we learned all about [the history of the color purple], the ugly truth behind [this photo], and how to [be less racist] (at least when it comes to Harambe memes). So who is Wednesday? Well, “[the bitch don’t even know me].” —[Laura Feinstein] TODAY IN... MIND THE GENDER GAP Women earn just 80% of what men make. So we came up with [80 things you can buy for 80 cents]. MONARCHS Meet the man who was [born to be emperor of Brazil]. RACIST SALAD DRESSING Why Chrissy Teigen will pass on that [side of “Oriental.”] ICYMI 2016 has been amazing for [women of color on TV]. SAD GOODBYES A eulogy for [the pink shirt girl emoji], aka your internal monologue. CHECK OUT Kanye and Skrillex and Murakami, oh my! [Let Fusion take you] to the first-ever ComplexCon in style. Enjoy an all-expenses-paid VIP trip and check out performances by Kanye West, Skrillex, and Kid Cudi, and installations by renowned artists like Ron English and Patrick Martinez. [Enter now] to experience the best in music, style, sneakers, art, food, and culture. THE READ [Hillary Clinton Health Hysteria Has Deeply Sexist 19th-Century Origins] by Stassa Edwards If the conspiratorial frenzy that follows Clinton’s health seems familiar, it’s because it echoes a centuries-old medical narrative of women and their bodies. It interprets deviation as disease and centers on lingering stereotypes about feminine weakness. The Clinton health alarmists fundamentally believe that the evidence is there—all we need is a handful of self-appointed men to analyze and inspect every step and stumble, to see what others can’t: to see her through an “objective” lens of observation, to see a body in crisis and recreate invisible neurological disease as an easily digestible image. Or at least that’s what they argue. [Read more]. LET’S TALK ABOUT TIMBUKTU Recently [photographer] and Fusion contributor Tara Rice visited the war-torn region of Timbuktu to capture[these amazing images], destroying the colonialist myth of the fantasy city in the mountains. “Timbuktu is often used to describe a faraway place that probably doesn’t exist,” says Rice. “It became a legendary symbol of wealth for Europeans in Africa, a legacy that doesn’t exactly capture the spirit of the bombed out village of modern day.” Western media largely ignored the area’s conflicts with al Qaeda insurgents from 2008-2013, when the terrorist organization started kidnapping tourists and later occupied the entire city. Today, the area still experiences irregular bombings and frequent terror threats that rarely make global news reports. [Facebook] [Twitter] [Vine] [Instagram] [Youtube] Remember, you can always [click here to unsubscribe] and never see another one of these emails until the apocalypse (at which time it'll be nothing but emails). This email was sent to {EMAIL} Fusion · 419 Lafayette St · New York, NY 10003 · USA