by Elizabeth Stark | Jul 30, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
I’ve spent a lot of time learning how to feel. I remember a therapist saying, Where in your body do you feel that? And I remember thinking, feel? Body? Where? What was he talking about? I remember going to a workshop in my yoga teacher’s apartment in New York and the...
by Elizabeth Stark | Jul 14, 2020 | Action, Opinion
I’ve been watching the Coronavirus pattern. Scientists and health experts say, if we do X and don’t do Y things are going to get worse, cases will spike, hospitals will get overwhelmed. And then we do X anyway and don’t do Y, and lo and behold, things get worse, cases...
by Elizabeth Stark | Jun 23, 2020 | Opinion
“This is a moment of reckoning for racial injustice and health disparities. Doing nothing about air pollution, which so clearly has a greater impact on Black Americans, is racism in action.” — Catherine Garcia Flowers, a field organizer in Houston for Moms Clean...
by Elizabeth Stark | Jun 9, 2020 | Opinion, Uncategorized
Crowds of people demanding justice in the middle of a pandemic is a terrifying and thrilling vision. A risk-ratio analysis keeps circling back to “I can’t breathe,” the grim vision of a man being killed in broad daylight, on camera, for nine long, terrible minutes, by...
by Elizabeth Stark | Jun 3, 2020 | Opinion
Larry Kramer, with activist Jason Walker, on the rally stage in Central Park last June following the Queer Liberation March. I’m supposed to begin my day with morning pages and meditation, but of late they’ve sort of merged–I’ve allowed myself to understand them...
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