It's not that I don't want to love unharmed people; I just don't understand them.
It took you twelve years to see that being good had gotten your piano teacher everywhere and you nowhere at all. So you decide, for the first time in your life, that you aren’t going to be one of the...
It is untenable to go through life as an exposed wound. No matter how well intended, trigger warnings will not stanch the bleeding; trigger warnings will not harden into scabs over your wounds.
In the self-defense class, our teacher taught us that if we couldn't imagine doing something- cracking an assailant in the head with a stapler, opening up a can of pepper spray on an attacker, digging...
In our culture, we talk a lot about change and growing up, but man, we don’t talk nearly enough about how difficult it is.
I took it for granted that this is what all families did—come together and become an island unto themselves, the kitchen table the sun around which we revolved.
I knew where danger really lurked—in the woods behind well-manicured exclusive suburban neighborhoods, at the hands of good boys from good families.
I assumed that he was going to make fun of me because I had long become accustomed to people, men mostly, calling out cruelties from their cars, their bicycles, when they walked on by—letting me know...
He should have been above reproach. As Syreeta McFadden noted, Only in America can a dead black boy go on trial for his own murder.
Carolina pulled the letter out of her pocket and held the corner to the open flame of a lighter before tossing the burning letter into the air. We lay down on the runway, holding hands. The flame burn...
Muitos de nós estamos nos aproximando, à espera de que alguém distante agarre nossas mãos e nos lembre de que não vivemos tão solitários quanto tememos.
It’s dangerous to suggest that the targets of oppression are wholly responsible for ending that oppression.
Am being open about who I am and who I was and where I have faltered and who I would like to become.
Writing bridges many differences. Kindness bridges many differences too,
When people wield the word privilege, it tends to fall on deaf ears because we hear that word so damn much it has become white noise. One
When it comes to fat, there has to be a reason. We need to be able to trace the genealogy of obesity. Without that genealogy, we are simply mystified. People need an explanation for how a person can l...
When I was completely worn-out, I sank to the floor. The heat overwhelmed me. Already, my clothes clung to my body. I could smell myself. The edges of my face were damp with sweat. Heat
What is truly terrifying is the exact knowledge of what will come and being unable to save yourself from it. Grabbing
What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgement of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been marginalized, the ways I have suffered.
We want to see more complex, nuanced depictions of what it really means to be whoever we are or were or hope to be. We just want so much. We just need so much.