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The last thing you need right now is a Thanksgrifting

November 25, 2020 by Guest Poster

If there’s one thing I’m not sweating this year, it’s inviting a bunch of grifters to my Thanksgiving table. Sure, they’re family, but they had their chance and now they’re dead to me. Not in a COVID way. In an “Uh, no, I will not pass this creamy bowl of mac and cheese because you, …

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Categories Commentary, Current Events, Relationships

Wishing tortures to Happy People one freshly baked microwave cake at a time

July 26, 2020 by Guest Poster

Today’s post is from guest contributor Liz Henry Back when I was really depressed, happy people made me want to die. They did not inspire me to redirect my thoughts or look at my can of Diet Coke as half-full. The only thing happy people inspired in me were new ways I could torture them. …

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Categories Commentary, Life, Mental Health, Random babble

Reparations matter and are relevant (and doable) now

May 10, 2020March 5, 2020 by Guest Poster

Today’s offering is a guest post from Kathryn Terry of Reparations Roundtable™, a group of white and white- presenting folks dedicated to the educational and direct giving aspects of reparations work (for more on her and the group, see info at the end after my usual giving/support blurb). – BGIM I am a reparationist. A …

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Categories Activism, Money, Racial and Cultural 3 Comments
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