This is an amazing interview, which discusses how we live democracy and keep hope while we work to make the world better. Oh, that's a terrible description, but I really recommend you listen to this discussion.

Civility, History, and Hope with Vincent Harding [onBeing.org] (ETA Make sure to use the download link; the streaming link currently ( Read more... )

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So, I generally don't pay any attention to the speech of nationally prominent Republicans, because the Republican Party hates me - black, lesbian, poor, atheist, with socialist tendencies.

Well, tonight I was listening to NPR while cleaning the kitchen, and Sam Brownback said in primetime, on at least one television channel, that he believes in ( Read more... )

So, there was a blow up about race in SGA fandom last weekend 1. Also, I went to muskratjamboree this weekend and offered an 'alternative panel' on How to Write Characters of Color. Both at my panel and in the SGA blowup, I saw two related and extremely annoying responses. a) Racism is unbelievably fraught and scary and I am afraid that the FoCing Cabal 5 will be ( Read more... )

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