Life

This is Not Strength

We’re living in a time that feels like an ugly, dangerous time loop. We’ve watched this story play out in different colors, religions, and cultures. Across the boundaries of different nations and places. But the pattern is the same. Conquer. Collect. Push certain people to the margins. Make them bad. Make them evil. Call them… Continue reading This is Not Strength

Life

The Land of Lies

Perhaps the worst lie we ever toldwas that America was the land of opportunity. That if you came,if you worked,if you did your best,it didn’t matter who you wereor where you came from.You could be anything. I wanted to believe that story.We all did.It was stitched into every anthem,every flag in our childhood classrooms,every promise… Continue reading The Land of Lies

Life

The Ugliness Isn’t New: It’s Just Louder Now

The ugliness isn’t new.It just sat in corners,under wraps —racism simmering beneath the surface,homophobia,transphobia,xenophobia... people aching to other their neighbors,to write fear and discomfort into law. History we thought was behind usis hanging Black men from trees again.Women bleeding out in parking lots,denied carebecause compassion’s been made illegal. People online cheering for brutalityagainst their neighborsbecause… Continue reading The Ugliness Isn’t New: It’s Just Louder Now

Life

When Bullies Become Heroes

Some people were born to be bullies. Maybe life did them wrong in some way, leaving scars they now wear like armor—a prickly shield that lets them carve out a place of their own by keeping everyone else at a distance. It’s their way of asserting themselves, of creating a sense of safety by pushing… Continue reading When Bullies Become Heroes