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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 10, 2020
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We Are Here
Our love is not subject to anyone's approval.
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Dec 7, 2020
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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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Nov 20, 2020
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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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Oct 12, 2020
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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 23, 2020
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The Ties that Bind
We are bound by our biases.
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Sep 6, 2020
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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 25, 2020
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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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Jul 21, 2020
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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 20, 2020
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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 16, 2020
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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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Jun 14, 2020
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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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May 30, 2020
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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
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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 20, 2020
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I Want What I Want
Unexamined privileges lie at the heart of our sense of entitlement.
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Apr 17, 2020
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Viral Truths
What our response
to this virus has once again revealed
is that there are many Americas.
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Apr 13, 2020
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