Equity comes when the beneficiaries of inequity demand it the loudest.
One Day in Two Americas (The Life of Derek Chauvin and the Death of Ma’Khia Bryant)
People of color have long known that there have existed two different Americas and they’ve been trying to tell the rest of us.
People of color have long known that there have existed two different Americas and they’ve been trying to tell the rest of us.
Can America Be Saved From Republicans?
How do we find common ground with those who insist on dehumanization?
How do we find common ground with those who insist on dehumanization?
A Letter To Church Leaders Regarding LGBTQ Youth
If you’re using the Bible to proof-text yourself into feeling justified for discriminating against someone else—you’re probably doing religion and the Bible wrong—and you’re definitely doing Love wrong.
If you’re using the Bible to proof-text yourself into feeling justified for discriminating against someone else—you’re probably doing religion and the Bible wrong—and you’re definitely doing Love wrong.
The American Supremacist I Might Have Been
Witnessing their contempt for immigrants, their deep-seated racism, their adoration of guns, and their irrational fear of LGBTQ people, I’ve often found myself thinking, “I know these people".
Witnessing their contempt for immigrants, their deep-seated racism, their adoration of guns, and their irrational fear of LGBTQ people, I’ve often found myself thinking, “I know these people”.
Kind People Are Suffering From Cruelty Sickness
I sense a corporate emotional weariness in kind people these days, the accumulated scar tissue created when you’ve absorbed more bad news, predatory behavior, and attacks on decency than your reserves can manage.
I sense a corporate emotional weariness in kind people these days, the accumulated scar tissue created when you’ve absorbed more bad news, predatory behavior, and attacks on decency than your reserves can manage.
America Has a White Male Problem—And It’s Not The One We Think
The rise of the loud, angry white men in this moment is a product of decades of the silence of good white men.
The rise of the loud, angry white men in this moment is a product of decades of the silence of good white men.
Open Letter To a Transgender Young Person
I so hate that it is your reality: not that you are who you are but that people are who they are in response, that your inherent beauty is met with such undeserved ugliness.
I so hate that it is your reality: not that you are who you are but that people are who they are in response, that your inherent beauty is met with such undeserved ugliness.
They Survived a Global Pandemic, But Not America’s Gun Epidemic
The coronavirus has historically brutalized the planet, but it will pale in comparison to our greed and our fear and the sickening truth that nearly half this nation treasures guns more than people.
The coronavirus has historically brutalized the planet, but it will pale in comparison to our greed and our fear and the sickening truth that nearly half this nation treasures guns more than people.
The Christians Who Would Not Help People
They all voted no on giving aid to Americans during the single greatest health crisis of our lifetimes: one that has taken the lives of over a half a million Americans and left millions more at the precipice of poverty and homelessness—or well beyond it.
They all voted no on giving aid to Americans during the single greatest health crisis of our lifetimes: one that has taken the lives of over a half a million Americans and left millions more at the precipice of poverty and homelessness—or well beyond it.
The God Mockers
It’s a mockery of God to ignore safeguards in a pandemic.
It’s a mockery of God to ignore safeguards in a pandemic.
I’m Fine, Thanks for Masking (A Letter to Compassionate People)
Today I’m fixing my gaze on those who rose to the moment, those who became a better version of themselves, those whose humanity would not be denied.
Today I’m fixing my gaze on those who rose to the moment, those who became a better version of themselves, those whose humanity would not be denied.
God Wrecked America
I’m quite familiar with the story: supposedly faithful people fashioning an idol made of gold and cravenly bowing before it, in complete contempt for the God they claimed to believe in because they had lost their collective minds.
I’m quite familiar with the story: supposedly faithful people fashioning an idol made of gold and cravenly bowing before it, in complete contempt for the God they claimed to believe in because they had lost their collective minds.
Grieving Half a Million American Lives
How do you hold a collective funeral for that many souls at once?
How do you hold a collective funeral for that many souls at once?
When You’ll Defend Anything
When some declare that no line is too far to cross—the rest of us will be here to defend that line together.
When some declare that no line is too far to cross—the rest of us will be here to defend that line together.
Mansplaining the Trauma of Women
Right now, millions of men are exacerbating the damage done because they lack the emotional maturity and simple decency to sit with other people’s pain (especially that of women) and allow it to call them to a place of deeper humanity, introspection, and change.
Right now, millions of men are exacerbating the damage done because they lack the emotional maturity and simple decency to sit with other people’s pain (especially that of women) and allow it to call them to a place of deeper humanity, introspection, and change.