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Drinking Less
I don’t think most of us actually want to drink ourselves to death, but it’s difficult not to.
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White Imagineers and the Perpetual Expedition to Violence Town
The white preoccupation with a curated past instead of a new future is very normal. And very dangerous
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Two Years, Eh?
Dispatches from my floor and the pandemically exacerbated linguistic divide between my brain and body as we pass the 2 year marker.
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This Pain is, in Fact, Not Useful!
August is a bad time, resilience is perverted for the white capitalist machine, etc.
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You Can’t Spell “Indian Residential Schools” without “America”
The shared history of Indian Residential/Boarding Schools in Canada and the U.S.
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The Last Time I Liked My Body, and Other Things I Hadn't Planned On Writing
An unexpected reflection on healing my intuition
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More Beautiful
About a picture book, a birthday, and why I am what I am.
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Check on the Parents
No, seriously. Check on them. The pandemic isn't going to stop upending parent-child relationships anytime soon, and it's bananas.
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Hey, White People, Pt. 2: We Don't Get to Decide that We're Allies
We The Whites have a broken understanding of the word "ally," and a dangerous habit of centering ourselves in other peoples' fights for liberation.
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Hey, White People, Pt 3: White Privilege Means We Have to Shut Up
We the Whites cannot and should not be leaders in radical change work. Our job is to help, not to be visible.
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Institutional Education, or Safety Pin Michael and the Dildo
School isn't for its students
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Bully/Bullied
On having been both, and what that means now
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