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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Post-Roe America and my story

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A few weeks after turning 18, I met the boy who would become my first husband and the father of my eldest child. He was 20 when we met and we fell head over heels, very much in that first love kind of way. Hot, heavy, and intense. We mistook hormonally fueled teen passion for …

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