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Saturday Link Love: American Girl Dolls, Gang Dangers, and Donald Trump in Westeros

Saturday Link Love: American Girl Dolls, Gang Dangers, and Donald Trump in Westeros

Last updated on: February 27, 2016 at 5:00 am by Libby Anne

Saturday Link Love: American Girl Dolls, Gang Dangers, and Donald Trump in Westeros 2016-02-24T09:10:13-04:00 Libby Anne

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Saturday Link Love is a new feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier!

Note: Inclusion in this list does not imply full agreement.

Children, Gender, and Race

Seven Skills to Teach Your Daughter by Age 13, on Mashable

A pre-teen girl is at a unique moment in her life. The spark that is her potential grows more intense, yet she’ll have to fight against gender norms that threaten to diminish it.

Is It Okay to Fight in Front of Your Kids? on Aha Parenting

Is it ever okay for parents to disagree in front of kids? Yes! It’s terrific for children to see adults disagree with each other respectfully, and ask for what they need without making the other person wrong.

New American Girl Doll is from ’60s Detroit, on Detroit News

American Girl has embraced Motown and civil-rights era Detroit with the release late this summer of a 9-year-old African-American doll and aspiring singer named Melody Ellison.

US school district apologizes for black-student-only assembly on gang dangers, on The Guardian

An Arkansas school district has apologized after singling out black students to attend an assembly about gangs.

How to Talk about Race with Your Kids, on Mashable

While starting early, in whatever capacity a parent deems appropriate, it’s also crucial to regularly engage a child in conversations about race.

The Letter Your Teenager Can’t Write to You, on Emotional Geographic

I desperately need you to hold the other end of the rope. To hang on tightly while I thrash on the other end—while I find the handholds and footholds in this new world I feel like I am in.

Politics of Bigotry

Donald Trump in Westeros Makes a Disturbing Amount of Sense, on i09

One enterprising YouTuber created a fantasy world where there are old gods and new gods, dragons walk the earth, and Donald Trump’s politics don’t sound insane, like building a giant wall and bringing back waterboarding.

Conservative Trolls Have Been Suggesting Men Go into Women’s Restrooms to Help Legislators Discriminate Against Trans People, on The Stranger

Over the last two months, Facebook users who support the anti-trans discrimination bills in the state legislature have been suggesting that men invade those spaces in order to drum up support for the legislation.

Proposed Illinois Law Would Deny Support from Mothers Who Don’t List Father on Birth Certificate, on Friendly Atheist

Shaming women by punishing their children is a particularly disturbing means of enforcing conservative “morality” via the government.

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