by Aya de Leon | Mar 26, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays, Uncategorized
Content warning: sexual violence Sometimes–in a pandemic no less–you are faced with impossible choices. This one is about the 2020 election. I cannot stomach Joe Biden. I #BelieveWomen. I know Tr*mp is a disaster that must be stopped at all costs. ALL....
by Aya de Leon | Mar 26, 2020 | Personal Essays, Uncategorized
For a while, in my 20s, I lived with housemates, and we did puzzles. Big, thousand piece puzzles on our kitchen table in Dorchester, MA. I can’t recall any of the pictures, just that we’d leave them up for days or weeks. Sometimes we’d hang out and work on the...
by Aya de Leon | Mar 17, 2020 | Personal Essays
Our road to the Green New Deal will not be easy. It will require creating deep coalitions between groups of people who have been set up to mistrust each other. Two of these important groups are Blacks and Jews. With Bernie Sanders as our last GND candidate standing,...
by Aya de Leon | Mar 11, 2020 | Guest Post, Personal Essays
(Jan Gilbrecht is a long time friend of my family. She wrote up a wonderful first person account of working at the polls on Super Tuesday, and. I invited her to post it as a guest on the Daily Dose. Yesterday’s primary was tough for the Green New Deal, but the...
by Aya de Leon | Mar 9, 2020 | Personal Essays
My African American great grandfather was a tailor in South Carolina. In the 1930s, he owned a small shop and was able to support his family. One day—as the story goes—a white man came into his shop and became abusive. He yelled at my great grandfather. My great...
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