Life is complicated.
Joyful action matters.
This is a blog for those on
a journey past good intentions.
5 Reasons Why You Should Meet Your Elected Officials Face-to-Face
Go beyond contacting your elected officials and get into the office for a face-to-face meeting on issues you care about. Here's why.
A day on: MLK Day service and the Freedman’s Bureau
What can you do on MLK Day for this national day of service? History buffs, handwriting decipherers and fighters for racial justice can all participate in the Freedmen’s Bureau transcription project.
Our students deserve a more inclusive classroom curriculum in 2021
All students deserve a well-balanced curriculum that offers a window into others’ lives and a mirror to better understand themselves and their role in society. We’re still not there yet. And it’s hurting us all in surprising ways.
5 points of inspiration I'm taking from a Feminist Manifesto for 2021
Lean into an inspirational feminist text on raising strong young women for an aha moment or two on living life in 2021. Thank you, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Why we need to stop saying that things are broken
The systems and institutions we rail against as broken are often not broken at all. Here’s why it’s important to call out by name what’s broken and needs fixing and what is (scarily) working exactly as it was designed.
Something is rotten in the Dewey Decimal system
Let’s pull apart the embedded racism and homophobia embedded in the world’s most popular library book classification system: the Dewey Decimal System. The way we organize knowledge tells us who we are and what we value—it’s time to re-categorize.
The siren song of the status quo
Do you ever wonder why social change is so difficult? Why we accept things in our society that are potentially bad for us? Let’s talk about our weird love of the status quo and system justification theory.
