I think I'm going to consider my audience. I have tended to think of myself as speaking (or attempting to speak) to the world at large, in general, about the things I wanted to speak of. And I did speak (some; mostly I wrote and attempted to get people to read what I'd written), I did try to communicate. The terms I used were things like "I am ( Read more... )

It's there in the part of my mind where I care the most. That's the area where I'm most likely to express my difference from you and your perspective. On any subject, I mean. It's not that I mostly think like you; or that I don't. It's that if I don't care about the difference, if it's not part of the topics where I care the most, then I'm less ( Read more... )

"We shouldn't call it 'homophobia', that's misleading", my Facebook friend writes. "It's not like those haters out there are hiding from us with their teeth chattering and worried that we're gonna get them. The word should be something like misogyny for hating women, what would that be, misgayism or misqueer, or an 'ism' word, but not a word that ( Read more... )

This is me, a first grader, and I want to write about something very important ( Read more... )

[warning: multiples forms of hostile & derogatory language ( Read more... )

It is important to be aware of one's privileges and to try to maintain some awareness of what life is like for people who don't have them ( Read more... )

The assault on abortion rights was never about abortion per se, it's been all about returning us to patriarchy, pre-feminism. And all the Otherisms like racism that are part and parcel of it ( Read more... )