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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

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What My Grandmother Knew

My grandmother raised my dad and his brother in the 1950 and 1960s. She wasn’t educated and couldn’t drive. At that time women had few rights. She couldn’t get a bank loan, a credit card, or a mortgage without a male co-signer. My grandfather, her husband, was not a kind man. He was abusive, a… Continue reading What My Grandmother Knew