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Dec 19, 2020

How Do You Know What You Value?

What we hold dear is embodied by whom we keep close.

Dec 10, 2020

Spirituality is Meant to be Shared

Little comes from spirituality practiced exclusively in isolation. It's through togetherness that we might manifest a greater good...

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Dec 7, 2020

We Are Here

Our love is not subject to anyone's approval.

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Nov 20, 2020

Here's What's Beautiful

We each of us get to decide what's beautiful. Not Hollywood. Not fashion magazines. Not the beauty industry. It's up to us.

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Oct 12, 2020

Indigenous Peoples' Day

When thinking about how we treat indigenous people around the world, I'm reminded that we cannot harm someone while holding...

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Sep 23, 2020

What Are You Willing to Risk?

Part of our work is to make polite bigotry socially unacceptable. We must risk discomfort and decorum to confront bias in the moment...

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Sep 6, 2020

The Ties that Bind

We are bound by our biases.

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Jul 25, 2020

The Whole Point

The goal of advocating for greater diversity and inclusion is not the ironing out of our differences, but the delighting in them.

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Jul 21, 2020

Privilege vs Adversity

We are all complex mixtures of privilege and adversity. By acknowledging our accidental advantages, we can better empathize with...

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Jun 20, 2020

We Can't Escape It

We all swim in a sea of stigma, bias, and prejudice. There's just no avoiding it. It's our work to acknowledge it, listen, read...

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Jun 16, 2020

Credit Where Credit is Due

We gay men owe so many of our civil rights to women and people of color. And yesterday was no different.

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Jun 14, 2020

How to Protest

Telling someone how they should protest is not that different from telling them why they should be oppressed.

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May 30, 2020

What is racism, anyway?

Racism is the ravine into which we hurl ourselves, in order to rob our neighbors, bolster our inadequacies, and nurture our nostalgia.

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Apr 20, 2020

Gay Racism

One thing has never been clearer to me: it’s time for us to get real about racism in the GBTQ+ community...

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Apr 20, 2020

The Power of Diversity

Diversity is always a strength — not something to be papered over, ironed out, or pretended away. We are not all the same, and...

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Apr 17, 2020

I Want What I Want

Unexamined privileges lie at the heart of our sense of entitlement.

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Apr 13, 2020

Viral Truths

What our response to this virus has once again revealed is that there are many Americas.

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How Do You Know What You Value?

Spirituality is Meant to be Shared

We Are Here

Here's What's Beautiful

Indigenous Peoples' Day

What Are You Willing to Risk?

The Ties that Bind

The Whole Point

Privilege vs Adversity

We Can't Escape It

Credit Where Credit is Due

How to Protest

What is racism, anyway?

Gay Racism

The Power of Diversity

I Want What I Want

Viral Truths

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