Category: UWC Article
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024 Cutting Wires From My Tree
My Brass Tacks chat with Veronica A Perez was a gift last Friday. It was a calm chance to make sense of a week in which my spirit and memory were bombarded by misogyny, violence, pain – from Cosby…
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023 Why I HATE(d) Discipline
First off, my mother raised me to never indiscriminately use the word hate (thanks, mom) – so when I say I hated discipline, it’s real. Here’s the story I had told myself: My ability to be disciplined had…
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022 Sh*tTalkers
One of the most insidious ways systemic discrimination replicates itself is through intentional and unintentional sh*ttalking. We use gossip and “gut feelings” to police and control others who challenge the status…
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021 I Need To Ask Forgiveness
TLDR: Something inside of me knows I can’t be free if I can’t forgive – and yet….. I don’t. I look inside of myself and see a pile of rocks that feel infinitely heavy and far too hard to move. I stand there, frozen…