by Aya de Leon | Aug 24, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
When my partner and I decided to become a one-car family in 2016, I began to use Uber when I wasn’t able to walk or bike. Until this happened in 2017: As news of Donald Trump’s travel ban on Muslim-majority countries spread, protests sprang up at airports around...
by Elizabeth Stark | Aug 18, 2020 | Opinion
Every day, we said, every weekday, we will post something. We will call it The Daily Dose. Art, links, news, poetry, opinion pieces, rants… We’ve run a free writing class and posted grants, we’ve analyzed events, written stories, created videos. Our...
by Aya de Leon | Aug 14, 2020 | Opinion
What Kamala Harris needs most right now is us. Not just a cheerleading team, or our pledged support for the Biden/Harris ticket, but all of us. As a Black/Indian woman in politics, she has had to make ugly calculations and compromises with entrenched power. An Afro...
by Aya de Leon | Aug 12, 2020 | Opinion
Elizabeth Stark: One of my students told me tonight that her grandmother’s name was Kamala. “My little diabetic, illiterate grandmother who is no longer with us would NEVER HAVE IMAGINED that she might be vice-pres of the U.S.!!!!!!” she wrote into...
by Elizabeth Stark | Aug 11, 2020 | Action, Opinion
A long time ago, an activist told me a story, which I will convey to you now in the mostly gender-neutral terms with which I try to approach our gender-complex world. (This is otherwise not really about gender at all, any more than everything is, in a patriarchy, but...
by Elizabeth Stark | Aug 4, 2020 | Opinion, Uncategorized
In an interview, I heard Ira Glass say, every episode of This American Life has a particular theme, but in fact, every episode has the same theme: I thought this would happen, and instead this happened. I will talk about this tomorrow evening at a free class Ellen...
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