
Politics
Compassionate Resistance for 5/2/17
"When you think about it from a movement building perspective, the question isn’t, 'Do I have a role?' The question is 'What role?'"
Politics
"When you think about it from a movement building perspective, the question isn’t, 'Do I have a role?' The question is 'What role?'"
Politics
"...The worst thing you can do to a dictator is laugh at him."
Politics
"Contrary to Donald Trump’s indiscriminate portrayal of African-Americans as ‘living in hell,’ the black upper middle class is ascending the economic ladder at a faster rate than its white counterpart."
Politics
"...Is a family that just got here from Afghanistan going to have beds to sleep on tonight? We can solve that problem and that's what we do."
Family
If you want to love where you're going, first learn to love where you've been.
Politics
"Why do the same rules not apply to the runoff as to any other election? Why are they trying to make it harder for people to vote?"
Politics
"A white young person being asked questions about her gender is not a new problem and it is not a problem that should be blamed on trans people or trans affirmative shifts in society or medicine."
Neurodivergence
You can get anything done with ADHD's superpower...but you have to be into it, first.
Politics
"It is my hope that we are not here to just make proclamations and state our shared beliefs. It's my hope we're here because we're ready to commit to action."
Backstory
Or, the moment I realized my noise-canceling headphones were assistive technology for the elderly.
Politics
"Paying taxes reaffirms my commitment to this country and proves that undocumented immigrants, like my family and me, are not the freeloaders Republicans make us out to be."
Politics
"The world around me was constructed to, more or less, accommodate my faith. But many Muslim students cannot take for granted what I, as a Christian, was able to take for granted."