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So, apparently Women are supposed to age... but not actually look like we’re aging. Got it. Because people can be absolutely brutal when it comes to offering unsolicited opinions about Women’s bodies, faces, hair, weight, clothes, and overall appearance as we get older. And somehow, everybody becomes an expert on how a Woman should look …
I’ve been thinking about the word diversity and how often we use it without really stopping to think about what it means. Depending on who you ask, you’re probably going to get a different answer. And that makes sense. How we understand diversity is shaped by who we are, where we come from, how we …
Here we are in 2026, and in far too many ways, it feels like not nearly enough has changed. Turn on the news on any given day and the headlines can feel relentless: another shooting, another act of violence, another family grieving, another civil right being threatened or stripped away. People are being assaulted, robbed, …
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Becoming Better, One Lesson at a Time... Lately, I've been reflecting on some of the biggest life lessons I've picked up along this wild, beautiful, occasionally chaotic journey of becoming a better version of myself. (Spoiler alert: growth is not always graceful.) After plenty of trial and error- and a few "Well...that didn't work" moments- …
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What exactly are we celebrating? Every year around this time, I find myself asking the same question: What does it mean to celebrate the Fourth of July as a Black person in America today? And honestly...I still don't have a simple answer. As the holiday gets closer, we're bombarded with advertisements telling us to buy …
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Every year around this time, folks fire up the barbecue, and post inspirational quotes about freedom. And while I fully support good food and a reason to gather with community, Juneteenth deserves more than a quick social media post and a sale at your local department store. Juneteenth is often described as the day slavery …
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Every June, without fail, somebody asks the same question: "Why do we need a whole month?" And every June, LGBTQ folks everywhere collectively take a deep breath, sip whatever beverage is helping us survive the current political climate, and prepare to explain it all over again. So let's start at the beginning. What does it …
I love Oakland. I really do. This city is bold, diverse, creative, complicated, resilient, messy, brilliant, frustrating, and beautiful all at the same time. Oakland has some of the best food you will ever eat, people who will organize a protest by noon and a healing circle by 3pm, and enough culture packed into one …
So what exactly is authoritarianism? In simple terms, authoritarianism is a system of government where power becomes concentrated in the hands of one leader or a small group of elites. It is often marked by attacks on political dissent, weakening checks and balances, limiting civil liberties, controlling public narratives, and creating an environment where fear …
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What does it really mean to have the right to vote? And more importantly, do we truly understand what it means when that right is quietly chipped away in real time? Too many people fought, bled, and died for Black Americans to have the right to vote for us to treat it like it is …
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