Gratitude in our despair

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Here in the States, the Thanksgiving holiday is upon us—a morally repugnant holiday if we go back to its roots that we have mostly decided to accept as a time for gathering and feasting without thinking about the real implications and meaning behind it. Americans have never been good at facing reality as it really …

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Literacy and electoral politics

I was heading to bed the other night but decided to stop for one last scroll of the night on TikTok. Sign of the times. Our incessant need to scroll. I came across a video from a creator whose political insights are always spot on, and he shared footage from a press conference in Michigan. …

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After the election—We must move in something other than fear

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“When we aren’t mindful about principled struggle, we can end up caught in the kind of reductionist group-think that proliferates online but is rooted in, and heightens, our offline discomfort with generative conflict in cases of disagreement and difference.” —Adrienne Marie Brown The U.S. presidential election is entering the final stretch, and tensions are high …

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