044 Act Naturally
There’s being stuck between a rock and a hard place, and then there's being stuck between multiple rocks, hard places and dangers that threaten your life, and the lives of those you love...
There’s being stuck between a rock and a hard place, and then there's being stuck between multiple rocks, hard places and dangers that threaten your life, and the lives of those you love...
I started to understand that what we have is a mapping of a different terrain for learning–this represents a liberatory landscape. The field guide offers different ways of connecting power, spirit, identity, body and knowledge...
In a meeting I had just a few days before going into quarantine, a valued colleague shared C. Wright Mills’s idea of sociological imagination. When I heard it, I wasn’t thinking at all about Covid-19. I was imagining all the ways...
A light bulb went off over my head when a friend said, “I realized I can get crushed, pinned down under a person twice my size and be totally okay. I can adjust, accept and move on." Now that's a paradigm shift I could use...
When you live in a Super Tuesday state like Maine, February is not only a month blessed with reflections on Black History. It’s a funnel through which to reflect on the decision-making skills of our fellow...
Many years ago, I learned an adage that has proven itself time and time again in my life: What you focus on grows. We often think about this phrase in the personal realm: If I focus on...
“We’ve done our work for 15 years without a focus on racial equity and had success. So why should we make this core to our work now?” This was the primary question put...
Hmmmmmmm. Do I want to be right or do I want to be free? Now, that's a tough one. Sometimes I really, reallllllllllly want to be right. I want everyone to see things the way I see them. Wanting to be right is really about...
I had this cool idea for a podcast: "Yo, that's misogyny!" Inspired by the evergreen, "Yo, is this racist?", each week I and my cohost, Margaret Cho, would dissect that week's latest assault on people...
There's nothing like moving through public scrutiny, racist attacks, and difficult electoral loses to slap one (me) into questioning who you are and who you want to be. This summer I wrote about my...