The Problem with Creating Boxes around People — This spring, I set up a thirty-seven-gallon fish aquarium. I’ve been raising fish for a while. I got goldfish for the mantel several years before grad school, and I’ve had a betta there since I got married over thirty years ago. Bettas generally live by themselves, so there isn’t much…

The ways we form our identity, and how racism negatively impacts that development — I imagine most of us have a few insecurities of one type or another — as well as a few transformative events in our lives that can raise us up or knock us to our knees. Oftentimes we may know that we’re perfectly fine on an intellectual level, but it’s…

We’d Love to See You There — Editor’s Letter Our Human Family is all geared up for an excellent discussion about racial equity, allyship, and inclusion, and we hope you are too! Our session: Saturday, Aug 12, 2023 10:30 a.m. — 11:00 a.m. Register in advance. If you’d like to help make America — or really the entire world — a…

Editor’s Letter Politics have become a major topic of discussion the past few years but we don’t always talk about how, why, or even if people vote. According to Census.gov, sixty-seven percent of Americans voted in 2020; this is a five percent increase over 2016, but still means that one-in-three of us…

Every American not living under a rock is aware that the Supreme Court killed Affirmative Action last week. But what you might not know is how devastating this is to the Black community. The court’s ruling destroys one of the major pathways to opportunities that also lead to a higher…

Editor’s Letter The increasing hate and bigotry of the past several years has become almost unbearable in America. It’s as if almost half of our fellow Americans have traded in every shred of their integrity — nay, their very humanity — for the right to be openly racist . . . sexist…

A Eulogy — Too many days these days Even the sun’s merciful hugs Merely illuminate my pain The placid white moon Proffers no solace In the thickness of the darkness Air too heavy to take in Bodies even heavier when Guns are our only friend The lovely mujeres de La Playa Morph into monsters At our…

The Monetary Damages of Enslavement and Racism — Editor’s Letter 💛 Greetings, Ah, the American Dream. Health, wealth, and happiness! Hotdogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet! Work hard, and you can be anything you want to be! Only if you’re white, though. In my last letter, I discussed how pretty much all of us white folks are racist on some level…

(Please keep reading because it really — really — matters!) — Editor’s Letter It’s been a hard few weeks since I last wrote here, y’all. Lots more shootings in America the beautiful, more bodies piling up, even as gun “rights” keep expanding (I guess when you’re dead you have no rights, so . . . ). More racial profiling. More laws against women…