What they are telling me and the world is that their fears outweigh their love. This election has been rough—to say the least. According to an American Psychological Association survey, 52% of American adults said the election is a “very or somewhat significant source of stress.” But 2016’s turmoil is more than just internal and […]
The fight for reproductive justice is a fight based out of compassion, and that must also include compassion for those who might be alienated or triggered by pro-choice rhetoric. I have a very clear memory of the first time I ever saw my son. It was a sweltering July morning and I was wearing a […]
It’s simple: I must not impose my beliefs, my choices, on others. As the presidential campaign has ground on, I’ve wrestled with a fundamental question: As a Christian who believes that life begins at conception and thanks God his son’s birth mother chose adoption, how can I not vote based solely on the issue of […]
The beating heart of music, art, and literature knows that artists are morally obligated to expose human and societal truths, or else the death of our humanity is certain. In 2006, my college boyfriend bought us tickets to my first concert: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young at a rural Pennsylvania stop on the “Freedom of […]
The ferocious imperative to maintain male control that fueled the witch-hunts centuries ago is this same imperative that fuels the witch-hunt against Hillary Clinton today. Halloween has come and gone, yet we still get a front row seat to a real-life witch-hunt. The threats of violence and imprisonment being leveled against Hillary Clinton are eerily […]
With injustice out of hiding, we not only need to do something to stop it. We need to do the hard work of healing. As a first generation Iranian-American, I’m one among many people these days who wonders if the course of my existence would have been possible under a Trump regime. Would my parents, […]
Making the pill and other hormonal birth control methods difficult to access denies women, and others with wombs, total control over our lives. Dear men, let’s imagine this story isn’t about the pill, its about beer. Imagine that every three months you have to pay to see a doctor to get their permission to drink […]
The oldest of the parallel universes are the gender universes that leave so many men and women wondering how the same place—Earth—can be experienced so differently. We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things—it’s all just a different kind of the same thing.― Susan Glaspell, Trifles It’s been […]
