Every time you stay silent in response to cruelty or misinformation, you create a safe space for bigotry to spread. But you don’t have to let that happen. Everybody’s been there. In a taxi cab, at a graduation party, during a business dinner. You’re having a perfectly good time and then, bam. Somebody says something […]
Who will protect our child from the ‘protectors’? Can we truly cope with a lifetime of fear, wondering if our child would become one of far too many whose lives are lost at the hands of police? My partner and I both grew up with music. We both heard our daddies sing from birth, and […]
However we feel about Melania as a person, disliking someone does not make them deserving of possible domestic abuse. I didn’t know that ‘Free Melania’ was a thing until the Women’s March. Walking toward Constitution Avenue at the end of the day, I saw the words scrawled on more than a few signs. One poster was drawing […]
In my moment of liberation and celebration as a white cis woman, I didn’t think for a moment there was a single woman there feeling shame or hurt. “Close your legs. That’s not very ladylike!” I had never heard my grandfather say such a thing before and, at 12 years old, I was mortified. My […]
“If the kind of things that get said in Australian boardrooms were said in the US, that meeting would be shut down and that person would be sent straight to HR.” It was the first evening of product manager Katrina’s company conference and the CEO had just started the presentation. “It began with a woman’s […]
What I hope we’re fighting for when we call our senators and take to the streets isn’t ‘kindness.’ It’s not a lack of conflict or an abundance of hugs. It’s equality, justice, and liberation – and none of this is won by simply being nice. I jokingly posted on Facebook the other day, “When they […]
In discussions on the N-word, “cracker,” or on any other discussion on race, we must make sure the focus is on supporting the people who are fighting for inequality, not focusing on white people’s feelings. Yes, here we go again with a topic that often sets many of my white, would-be allies ablaze. We all […]
On my worst days, I feel that my atheism — a byproduct, no doubt, of my education and racial privilege — has cost me my place in this country. Donald Trump’s inaugural address broke from recent tradition in several ways, and was his most religious to date. His speech stressed unity and solidarity as the […]
