Role Reboot

I Know How I’m Going To Talk To My Daughter About Sex, But Not About Guns

I can tell her what’s happened, but I can’t tell her why, because I don’t understand why, and I don’t know how we can possibly fix it. Every parent has to have that conversation with their child at some point. My daughter is only 2, but she already has questions. The longer I put it […]

Our Children Are Growing Numb To Gun Violence

As a mother, I can only hope that my daughter survives the landscape of violence we have created for her to live in. This semester, I assigned Jo Ann Beard’s seminal essay “The Fourth State of Matter” in my freshman seminar course on first-person storytelling. With it, I also issued a brief content warning: The essay […]