I am trying to work through my personal experience of #Thanksgiving as an American holiday about gratitude and generosity with its oppressive and painful history. As part of this process, I’ve been reading resources on how to #decolonize Thanksgiving. It sounds like the current consensus is to teach kids about Native culture to combat bothContinue reading “Thanksgiving”
Category Archives: feminism, antiracism, & social justice
Trans lives matter
Today is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance. The day’s purpose is to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia and to draw attention to the continued violence endured by the transgender community. Trans lives matter. They always have, and they always will. Trans lives matter.
Kindness matters
We teach our girls to be kind and our boys to go after what they want. This is an imbalance, and as a feminist mama, I want to do my part to correct it. But, of course, the solution isn’t to teach our girls to be less kind or our boys to not go afterContinue reading “Kindness matters”