One person's "politics" is another person's life-or-death.
Tag: privilege
Reframing privilege and value (a response to Tara Sophia Mohr’s article)
I respond to Tara Sophia Mohr's recent Huffington Post article, "Why BlogHer '11 Got Me Angry," with my own thoughts.
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“This movie doesn’t like you”*
It always startles me when something I love gets really mixed reviews. I used to take it personally, but it's …
Politics/Privilege
How do we ease suffering in the world? How do we reconcile our privilege with others' misery? Can an individual …
Joyce Carol Oates, and myself as avenging angel
Warning: The following views are representative only of how I feel very occasionally. You should not, and I cannot emphasize …
Argh!
I try not to even get started on all the problems with K-12 education these days (at least in CA) …