Shay 
The beginning of June, the beginning of Pride—and Juneteenth happens this month as well. In recent years, these events were cause for celebration as we acknowledge and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community as well as celebrating Black liberation. However, at this moment, we find ourselves in a very different reality than a year ago, as the …
For many, the current political climate and trajectory in the United States feels hopeless. How do you survive the boot of fascism crushing our lives, while at the same time raising kids, tending to loved ones, working, paying bills and just trying to live? How do we fit in time for resistance when our system …
Back in the “old days” of the aughts, when I started my own website and started writing in 2008—after deciding I wanted to write beyond the work I was doing for local Maine publications—the site was referred to as a blog and the writing was referred to as blogging. In hindsight, the “blogging” that many …