How To Help Your Local State Representatives

What do you do when there are a lot of bad republican bills moving through your state’s legislature? These republican and white evangelical christian nationalist bills include: These are some of the heinous activities republican politicians are up to. Taking…

How To Learn, Grow, and Heal Together

James Baldwin is one of the most shrewd analysts of the American psyche and subconscious of all time. And so this quote of his is relevant today. “The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to…

The American Plan

During the 20th century, the American government had a widespread program in which they locked people up, without trial, for having Sexually Transmitted Infections – if they were women. The American Plan detained tens of thousands of American women and…

Republican Politicians Want To Protect Children, Right?

It’s great that republican politicians want to protect children. Well, not so fast. Child Labor So you ask republican politicians, you want to ban child labor, right? Child Marriages And so then you ask, well, republican politicians, you want to…

The New Jim Crow: Modern-Day Slavery

Here’s a perspective on the United States criminal justice system. During the Jim Crow era, a person of color in the United States faced at least: Then in the United States, we passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the…

How To Protect Yourself Ordering Abortion Medication

How do you protect yourself if you’re ordering abortion medication online? How do you do it safely? These are very important questions. Because republican politicians think they are doctors along with their white evangelical christian nationalist backers, these are the…

Why Can’t We Leave Trans People Alone?

A passionate speech in defense of the trans community by Congressman Jamaal Bowman speaking to republicans who are targeting our trans brothers and sisters throughout America. I just want to ask a simple question. Why can’t we leave trans people…

Child Labor Laws And Privatizing Schools

Republican politicians are passing bills that use tax dollars to privatize public schools. They are doing this through vouchers. This is a threat to public education. And public education is the foundation of democracy. But republican politicians and their white…

We Need To Maintain Who We Are

The primary reason human beings grouped into tribes was for safety. As those tribes became villages, cities, states, and nation-states, the goal of providing safety for the people should have never been lost. But it was. And in some parts…

Remember When Life Was A Bit Simpler?

Although republican politicians and their white evangelical christian nationalist backers have been plotting and actively destroying America and its people for decades, here’s a reminder of what existed just a few short years ago: Get an abortion or don’t. Be…