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).
I Love You Already
Come in. Take off your coat. Warm your feet. Have a cup of tea, and stay a while. We’re so glad you’re here.
A Journey Just Beginning
Five hundred children were brought to our border and began a new life, but not the ones their parents had planned.
Exhibit Q
America reckons with the most powerful conspiracy theory it’s ever seen. But it’s all been seen before.
Learning from Reality
It’s the worst the pandemic has ever been, I’m in one of the states with the worst numbers and the most resistance to public health measures, where education isn’t the highest priority even in the best of times, and I just signed up my last remaining virtual learner to return to in-person learning, effective yesterday. And I feel great–and terrified.
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.
Month Ten
Depending on where you live, it’s been about nine months since the coronavirus pandemic first caught up to the United States.
Chill of December
Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed by the United States, December 8. Following a delay on account of her lawyers contracting COVID-19, she is now set to die January 12, 2021. If she is executed on that date, she will be the first female federal inmate executed in nearly seventy years, and the 55th woman executed since 1900.
Fifty-Three
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.