
“If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” - RuPaul
You’re turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand...

Tell Me Your Story, Share Your History
My great-grandmama told my grandma the part she lived through that my grandma didn't live through and my grandma told my mama what they...

"I never figured out why they did that to me." Forced Sterilization is a HARD PASS.
He shakes his head at the clumsily typed, tersely written documents he shows me, now decades old, which he keeps in a plain clasp...

Mrs. Ruby Robichek
In the book, The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, there is a particularly lonely old woman that has quite a mysterious (a little...

LGBTQ and The Fosters
In Friday's lecture, we talked about anti-gay propaganda. As disheartening as that was to watch, it did get me thinking about how LGBTQ...

Friendship in "Passing"
Urban Dictionary defines friendship as "when you love someone with every ounce of your being and genuinely want them to be happy even if...

The Disabled Mother
Beyond the dictionary definition, what does it mean to be disabled? What does it mean to be viewed as weaker, as inefficient as a burden?...

Women Are Not Inferior
"Gosh!" said Terry, after a while. "Only women there--and children," Jeff urged excitedly. "But they look--why, this is a CIVILIZED...

‘Black-ish’ Tackles the Hard Stuff
Black-ish recently kicked off its fourth season. The second episode, appropriately titled Mother Nature dealt with an issue that many...










