May Day 2020
We have a chance to change business as usual, to make more conscious choices. Let’s not go back to a broken and deadly paradigm. Let’s move forward toward a society that lifts all of us.
Category: Look At This Mess
Same Story, Different Decade: The Manchildren Who Think They Are Owed Sex
We can’t seem to go a week without another story of a boy or a man(child) who feels entitled to feminine attention and goes on a murderous rampage when he doesn’t get it. Nor can we seem to break free from the narrative that it’s the girl/woman’s fault for rejecting the murderer. When I remember the hell I was put...
re: #TakeAKnee
So I see World Leader Pretend decided that going off on Colin Kaepernick and Steph Curry was more important than helping Americans in Puerto Rico, who are facing an unimaginable humanitarian crisis. World Leader Pretend has even called for a boycott of the NFL if the players #TakeAKnee or sit during the national anthem. Sports fans should never condone players...
Actually, White America, #ThisIsUs. And We Must #DoBetter
Like many, I’ve been watching what has been happening in Charlottesville, Virginia and it has turned my insides into a cocktail shaker of revulsion, rage, and profound despair. What is missing from this mix, however, is shock. What is going on in Charlottesville this weekend should not be a shock to anyone, yet my Twitter feed is full of (mostly)...
A Day Without A Woman
Today is International Women’s Day, a day on which the organizers of the Women’s March called for a strike. I elected to withhold our labor today. Instead, I attended rallies at San Francisco City Hall and at Justin Herman Plaza. It was beautiful to be in such great energy. We live in a time where straight white men who have...
The Year That Was 2016: Part One (a.k.a. Now What?)
I’m late to the Year In Review game, I know. I’ve been busy. And I am not the first to point out that 2016 was an epic Shit Show on so many levels. Looking back, the writing was on the wall last January, when David Bowie and Alan Rickman died. It was a year that saw so many heroes from...
The One About The Post I Found Lurking In My Drafts Folder
(Editor’s Note: As you’ll notice, I started this post the day after the Presidential Election. I left it languishing in my Drafts folder, mostly because I felt I was still working through my emotions about the outcome. Reading it over today, my feelings are not much different from this initial reaction. So I’m giving it a quick edit, adding a couple...