Coming Soon: Thirteenth of March — Part Four
. . . and more from The Mauve Report. Maude is back. Here is the last installment of Thirteenth of March from 2020, or you can find the entire series under our Series menu.
The Movement That Never Was
Is a movement defined by what it responds to, or how it responds?
A Man Named Floyd
No one would honestly say America was in a great place before May 25, 2020. But on that day, the death of one man changed it forever.
Say Her Name
What started as a hashtag in support of Black lives is now being used to martyr White ones. A look at the usage of a catch phrase in context.
A Plea for Women
This morning Lisa Montgomery became the fourth woman in the nation’s history to be executed by the federal government, the first in 67 years. Here’s how that happened.
When the Blue Comes Off
Black Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, and All Lives Matter — three true statements nobody should need to say. But they’ve all been said, and for Black Lives in Blue, it’s All complicated.
Three Days in America
In a long-term memory that’s both extensive and detailed, I have just a palmful of “JFK moments”–the ones in which you remember exactly what you were doing and how everything felt at an historic moment, so well you can instantly, mentally put yourself right back in it.
Maslow Looks Us Over
If America were an individual person, would she find that all of her needs are met?
Are We Cool?
As the New Year rang in hour by hour across the country, states from east to west welcomed new laws for medicinal and recreational drug use, following the will of voters in November (a majority of them at least).
The Overlooked Laws of People and Sex
How anti-trans sentiment and sexism end up in the same bed, and take us all with them.