Role Reboot

How Furling The Confederate Flag Returned My Patriotism

Finally, the place where I live is making a public admission that I’m welcome here. The last few weeks have felt like a train moving through the night without interior or exterior lighting. I’m not sure if the destination has been fully revealed, but as I sat in my 4-year-old son’s room a couple of […]

Desegregating Our Bookshelves Is A Good Start. Now What?

If boys won’t read books with girl protagonists, the solution is not to create more explicitly “boy” books, the solution is to delve deeply into “why,” says Soraya Chemaly. Last week, The Independent announced it would no longer review books that were specifically marketed to either boys or girls. As they put it, “Gender-specific books demean all […]