I fear this will be one of the rare times where my age shows as I grapple with sounding very like a “get off the lawn type.” However, in recent weeks, I have found myself realizing that our world is really shifting and while some of the not-so-great shifts we are seeing are the result …
Prior to 2020, it never occurred to me—as a near-lifetime career activist—that one could simply be too overwhelmed to stay active in the work. I mean sure, life happens, but we simply must go on. Right? After all, that had been my operating style for decades until 2020. When my mother died in the spring of …
Growing older in the social justice movement as a Black woman is a trip! It makes this current moment of uprising in American colleges interesting to bear witness to, with the lens of an elder activist. Despite what some believe and are loudly proclaiming, this is not the first generation to rise up against the …