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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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- 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 19, 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 12, 2020
Viral Truths
What our response
to this virus has once again revealed
is that there are many Americas.
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