Only a few minutes. A whole (subset) of a nation watching. What would you say?
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Is there anything more complex than abortion? Forget the religiously/politically/socially charged conversation around it – I’m talking about the act of having or considering having one. THAT is deeply personal and complicated-a truth conveniently (intentionally) left out of the politically…
Playgrounds are political! Let’s use the opportunities right in front us us say the things we need to say to imagine the world we want.
Did anyone remember this is Women’s History Month? Understandably, we’re all a little fuzzy. You know, a global pandemic, children still in cages that now have COVID, inmates living in conditions that have always been inhumane and are now astronomically inhumane,…
Resources for reimagining Thanksgiving for parents, educators, and anyone interested in decolonizing, rethinking and intentionally talking about the holiday Americans call Thanksgiving.
I don't have to tell you that Mother's Day is complicated. Estranged relationships, deceased mothers, mothers unjustly behind bars or walls, infertility, narrow definitions of gender and mother, and the...
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April 2nd, 2019 is the National Observance of Equal Pay Day. It is the day that averages together the incomes of all racial groups for the 80 cents on the dollar gender wage gap to signify how far into the…
I know it’s been a few days since a white supremacist murdered 50 Muslims and wounded 20 more at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in the nation’s deadliest attack, (and since, 5 mosques in Birmingham, England have been attacked. )…
Last Spring I joined the Wing, a work and community space designed for women. While there, I became intrigued by a conversation about poverty, classism, racism, and how Maya Angelo isn’t actually every black women’s favorite poet. I tend to…