Oh hi, sorry I’m breezing into work an hour late, but I had to take a lil time to throw out at least $75 of perishable food from my fridge since the power was out for more than 8 hours last night. Yeah no worries, my pay doesn’t get docked, I don’t get fired, I’ll […]
When I was about 7, I announced at the dinner table that I was old enough to stay up late and tell dirty jokes with the family. Turns out, I wanted to tell a racist joke. And turns out, that says a lot about how we can look at racism in ourselves.
In honor of Veterans Day, I’d like to introduce you to my Papa and Nana, my mother’s parents, on their wedding day in the middle of WWII. Long after the war, Papa became a psychiatrist and his practice included supporting transgender clients with their transitions. This would have been in the 1980s and early 90s, […]
Quarterly retreat for my team yesterday on Nov. 6, 2018, and how could I have a theme of anything but #ElectionDay? Sorry the pic doesn’t capture scent of crescent roll wrapped hot dogs in the toaster oven. Sugar rush from red white and blue cupcakes powered us through important 2019 planning. And yeah, there was definitely […]
Once upon a time, someone tried to misuse Facebook to start a hate movement against LGBTQ people and the President stood firm in his values and saved the day. No, of course I don’t mean this U.S. President in 2018, don’t be silly. I’m talking about way back in 1989 when the Facebook was an […]
When you murder my people for being like me, you make me remember who else I am like. I am like the refugees walking thousands of miles with their children to seek asylum, as my kin did in the Holocaust. I am like my family members and friends and strangers who are trans, whose safety […]
This morning, someone tried to take my white privilege away from me, and it was scary. When I feel attacked because I’m Jewish, what can that teach me about how safe I usually feel because I’m white?
In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, I will spend an hour re-listening to this amazing Seeing White podcast episode: “Little War on the Prairie.” Did you know that “we” deliberately mis-translated “Indian treaties” to leave out key provisions so we could trick them into signing bad deals, which we then repudiated anyway and turned into wars of […]
Summer of 1986. It’s hot and humid already at 6am as I’m on my way to start my shift at the 24-hour Burger King on the Mass Turnpike near my house. I’m walking fast and sweating in my too-big polyester uniform, desperately hoping none of the kids from school happen to see me because both […]
What I just learned about race here in my car while listening to The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist: slave-grown cotton in Massachusetts and the truth about zombies.