Last summer, millions were declaring that the United States had reached a turning point in its painful racial history. The death of George Floyd appeared to be mobilizing people not just across the country but also elsewhere in the world to care about racial justice. In the United States, protests took place in every state, sometimes in small communities with …
Last week, the Supreme Court upheld right-wing racist voting restrictions in Arizona, effectively gutting what’s left of the Voting Rights Act. The ruling was 6-3 and five of those six right-wing justices were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote. If that wasn’t ironic enough, please remember that this is happening while the chief national debate is about an …
TODAY’S EPISODE: Finding the Line Between Trauma Porn and Awareness I know many of you mean well…but sometimes you need to think twice before posting. Maybe even thrice. What am I talking about? Well, videos of Black people being brutally assaulted or killed by police. Or, for that matter, similar kinds of things. Maybe it’s not police doing the …
Remember when Minneapolis blew up? George Floyd was murdered, we all watched it, and then Minneapolis blew up. And the world blew up for a moment, too. Just a moment, though. We thought that moment was long enough. A lot happened in that moment. People went out into the streets. BLM signs went in windows. Laws got proposed. Corporations made …
It wasn’t so long ago that hearing a politician accusing someone of being a white supremacist might’ve made me think poorly of the person doing the accusing. And, like many of the white people I’ve talked with (or seen talking about it online), I know I wasn’t alone in that response. These days, when a Black person or another person …
TODAY’S EPISODE: Sometimes the “little things” distract us from big work “It’s the little things…” This is a pithy little saying about, well, little things, and it does have meaning. The little things do matter. Certainly micro-aggressions are little things but they build up and matter as constant pokes and jabs steadily wear the victim down. A single small …
Looking at Denver Deputy Daniel “Duke” Trujillo’s Facebook timeline, the first thing you notice is his cover photo. The photo is of Deputy James Herrera, another Denver officer who died on May 16. There are a lot of mourning posts on his timeline. There are memorial photos of officers killed in the line of duty and passed-on retirees and posts …
In less than 24 hours as I write this, the polls will open up in Portland, Maine, and to say that I am nervous would be an understatement. I entered 2021 with two ideas kicking around in my head. One was to seriously consider running for a seat on our local Charter Commission. The other was to truly open myself …
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Happy Friday! It’s a gorgeous day up in my corner of the world and way too beautiful to be writing a blog post today. So I present you with the Friday Round-Up a list of blog posts this week from other bloggers that blew my mind. Perhaps if you need to kill some time or have a quiet moment you can check them out. http://ravingblacklunatic.blogspot.com/ Check out this cat, I have been a fan of his work forever. http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/ Good stuff here as well http://sweetersalt.com/ A Maine blogger who talks fashion and food…the best of both worlds http://paganchild-starmommy.blogspot.com/2011/03/keeping-focused.html A new blog that offers words of wisdom for all of us. http://mscleaver.com/ Another Mainer who for Lent is giving up pants, she is also a crafty gal If you have any links to good blogs, feel free to leave em. It’s my hope to make the Friday Round Up a regular feature at my new home specifically I would live to shine some light and love on smaller bloggers. It’s hard out here in this blogosphere with so many good blogs to choose from and so little time so let’s help everyone get a slice of the pie. I will be back on Monday, at that time I will unveil some ideas I have around monetizing things but You May Also Like: No related posts.
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Skip the zero-sum game and shoot for something better
How do you see the world? Is it an either/or, zero-sum game? Have you considered “both/and?” Recovering from my addiction to whiteness (aka the “culture of white dominance,” aka “white supremacy culture”) requires that I practice living in new ways. I need to build new pathways in my brain, practice being different than I am when I’m swimming in whiteness, …
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