You can blame Wynton Marsalis for this one. Right here, at the beginning, I should say I'm going to talk about sex, so you can click away now if that news makes you queasy. For a long, long time, I've wanted to write about sex. I want to write and talk about sex the same way I want to write and …
A Monday Morning Reminder About the Internet
I'm writing this on a Monday morning, a day when, around the globe, people are starting their week with a cup of tea or coffee or water, and—for many of us—a peek at social media. We'll check our emails and we will check Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and Buzzfeed. We will catch up on the latest …
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I’m a White Girl From Michigan, and I’m Going There
Kate Motaung is one of those friends I've never actually seen in real life. We share a lot of the same passions and convictions about things in this world of ours, and I love cheering her on. She asked if she could share her Going There story and, naturally, I agreed. This is a repost of an …
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What If Grief Opens Us Up? | Rare Bird, a Giveaway
Crammed into my mother-in-law's condo, our family created makeshift beds and regressed to sleeping partnerships we hadn't utilized in decades. My son slept in the king-sized bed with my husband, my daughter on a couch on one side of the fireplace, and I claimed a day bed on the other side. My …
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What Ferguson Taught Us
Since coming home from Ferguson, and with everything we learned there, and everything we've been trying to unravel since we made our way home, we have slowly been building words together, and piling them up like an Ebenezer. We aren't the same people we were when we left home and boarded flights to …
#GoingThere: What You Can Do
To say I'm surprised by the recent response to the #GoingThere conversation would be an understatement. I am grateful to you all. It seems as if the #GoingThere conversation is here to stay for a while, and so I'm going to accept that for what it is and continue to make this a safe place for …