by Elizabeth Stark | May 5, 2020 | Opinion
In our family, we always laugh about the long list of side effects pharmaceutical ads will place at the end of an ad showing slo-mo joyous health and happiness supposedly provided by the suggested cure. Often “risk of death” is listed as a side effect. And...
by Aya de Leon | Apr 29, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
You’re only as sick as your secrets. I am fat, Black, and female. And it was at the intersection of these identities that I learned about fat and the body—what would become my fat body and the bodies of others. Latina women, Black women, white women, and other women...
by Elizabeth Stark | Apr 28, 2020 | Opinion
Three of us launched the Daily Dose a couple of months ago out of Vijaya’s living room. We made it a nine-month commitment, through the vital 2020 election. As we were planning and even as we began, we had no idea that we’d be sheltering in place during a global...
by Elizabeth Stark | Apr 14, 2020 | Opinion
Last night I sat at our table between one of my children and my partner, staring into the small screen of my laptop. The computer was set opposite a rush-job Sedar plate, and on the screen were the faces of about a dozen folks I just adore. A Sedar is the celebration...
by Aya de Leon | Apr 13, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
Last week was hard. The conservative majority on the highest Wisconsin state court ruled that their citizens would be forced to risk death in a pandemic in order to vote. This, in spite of an injunction by the WI Governor to delay the primary and have citizens vote by...
by Angie Powers | Apr 2, 2020 | Opinion
NRDC has a list of all of the environmental bills up for consideration this year in California. One in particular, AB1839, looks remarkably similar to the Green New Deal presented on the federal level. And, it’s supposed to. It’s even called, “The...
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