By R.R. Marsh #MeToo. It took me several moments to post the words on my Facebook account. I had to think through my past—a place I generally prefer to avoid—and consider events I had ignored for quite some time. Had I been a victim of sexual assault? Or was I fashioning mere slips of […]
By Jackleen Holton Hookway This world is just a little place, just the red in the sky, before the sun rises, so let us keep fast hold of hands, that when the birds begin, none of us be missing. –Emily Dickinson A sapling shakes, and a gust of new red-crested finches are launched into a […]
By mica woods if you took a telescope to the sky 200 lightyears away happened to point it down on this country, would you see the slaughter and the selling by those men we carry memories of in our pockets or would you not notice the labor in the fields as different from the digging […]
By Ashton Applewhite Ageism is discrimination and stereotyping on the basis of age. We experience it anytime someone assumes we’re too old for something, instead of finding out who we are and what we’re capable of, or too young. Ageism cuts both ways. All -isms are socially constructed ideas—racism, sexism, homophobia—and that means we make them up, and they can change over […]
