Where all sides (will) meet
It’s been nearly fifty years since the release of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, the landmark album on which he set aside love songs to sing about social issues, such as war, poverty, racism, police brutality, and environmental destruction.
A boy’s act of criminal mischief ends up in small town news, and his father uses it to teach him a valuable lesson. A real-life November story by Mauve Maude.
This Melanie Tannenbaum article from Scientific American ruminates on what we, in theory, all know: that gratitude is good for us, all year round. This year, may we challenge ourselves to take in the lessons of gratitude by distance. Being apart can never again be a reason not to give thanks.
Louisville and America wait for a fresh, young Attorney General to deliver justice for Breonna Taylor.
It’s now been nearly three weeks since Election Day, and more than two weeks since the Presidential race was called for Joe Biden.
Every year, November 20 is observed as the Transgender Day of Remembrance, in honor of transgender people lost in the previous year. Transgender Day of Remembrance, or TDOR, is preceded by Transgender Awareness Week. The goal is to bring national and worldwide awareness to anti-transgender violence, and put a stop to it.
November is when we observe Transgender Awareness Week. But Election Day also brought a huge week for LGBTQ candidates. While many might have thought the Presidential election was the only thing happening (not unusual), this November down-ballot races made a substantial bit of history: LGBTQ history.
Most Americans are in agreement: 2020 is nobody’s favorite year. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only sickened 11 million Americans and killed a quarter of a million. Its wreaked financial havoc and ruined livelihoods across the country, as we’ve shut down schools and much of our economy trying to stem deaths and illness.
Sex, gender, same thing, whatever. But are they? Here’s the difference, and why it’s important to know.
Everyone is tired of political correctness, and still no one feels heard. What is our alternative to giving up?
