60-second video review: Spike Lee’s movie BlackkKlansman brilliantly calls white women and Jewish people (hey, those are me!) into the struggle against white supremacy. P.S. apologies for the background noise, but it does sometimes rain in L.A.!
Holding and sharing encouragement from last week’s White Allyship training: The fears and challenges I’m feeling as I try to join the fight to dismantle racism are super common. I’m not unique, and that’s good news. Brilliant leaders have gone before me, lighting the path. All I need to do is keep walking.
I just finished the audiobook of The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. I wanted to change up my racial justice commute time, because honestly sometimes it’s hard to feel like I want to immerse myself in a nonfiction book that’s gonna hit me with fact after fact after fact of the history and current […]
Ten years ago today. We watched Barack Obama’s first inauguration from my dad’s hospital room in Concord, MA. Nurn was a flaming liberal who seriously feared W. would refuse to hand over power. But there we were, watching history and hope on screen, knowing it was pretty clear that Nurn’s own history and hope were […]
Happy new year, my dears. You might remember me writing about my beloved and hard-won Rules for who and how I want to be in the world. But I’ve been feeling very overwhelmed by uncertainty for awhile now. I finally had to realize, and admit to myself, that what brought me this far is not […]
Yay holidays mean it’s time for another themed party at work! The whole staff asked me to be in charge of decorations for our celebration to make it fun and festive for everyone… on the usual shoestring budget. Result: “New Leaf” theme, in honor of having a big year ahead with several new team members […]
Yoga practice has changed as I’m aging. No longer “advancing,” just reclaiming the same flexibility over and over again. Which might seem frustrating. Except: I also wash the same dishes and clothes over and over so I won’t get sick from trying to keep using them. I brush the same teeth over and over. I […]
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, […]