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Calling all white people, part 13: And now for a brief update…

April 19, 2018May 8, 2017 by Average White Guy

Calling All White People, Part 13 (A periodic attempt to mobilize white people for something other than supporting just other melanin-deficient folks and maintaining a status quo of a nation geared toward whiteness as the baseline and the norm) By An Average White Guy TODAY’S EPISODE: What this thing is all about [To find other …

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Categories Activism, Random babble

Losing our humanity one click at a time, or What has social media wrought?

May 23, 2017April 19, 2017 by Shay

The year was 1998 and I had returned to school to work on my undergraduate degree. It was my second year in when I took a research class that required being online. Let me refresh your memory: In 1998, less than half of U.S. households had personal computers, barely a third of Americans had cell …

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Categories Random babble, simplicity 7 Comments

On mindfulness and change, or BGIM musing

May 23, 2017February 21, 2017 by Shay

In 2008, I stepped into my first yoga class, a yoga nidra class to be exact. I wish that I could say that I was seeking spiritual enlightenment, but the truth is that after fifteen-plus years of suffering from panic attacks that had a habit of sneaking up on me at the most inopportune time …

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Categories Activism, Racial and Cultural, Random babble, Yoga
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