Archives

Biologically, I’m black and white. As an adoptee with brown skin from a very diverse family, I’m grateful that my mother (who happens to have skin much lighter than mine) provided all kinds of [...]

Article was originally posted in 2015. It was updated with new links in 2021. We’re peculiar creatures. We want meaning but leave meaning wanting. We exist by design but deny design exists. We [...]

The tyranny of Jim Crow could not withstand the relentless non-violence of freedom fighters. It took everyday people, both black and white, to stand against a ruthless racist ideology that was [...]

Title IX was passed, in 1972, as an extension of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It exists because the federal government acknowledged what science has known forever. There are two genders: boys [...]

  I’m a designer. I love the shiny silver products created by Apple. But when those products become philosophical pontifications in Op-Eds and news media campaigns of misinformation, I want [...]

Dear Cecile Richards, Please stop abusing civil rights history to justify your present-day killing fields. Martin Luther King Jr’s memory is not a dummy that you can manipulate like a [...]