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You have been lied to. I have been lied to. We’ve all been lied to by a system that is oppressive and wants things to stay the same way they’ve always been. In the last few weeks, I’ve learned more about the darkest parts of American history than I ever did in 12 years of…
I’ve noticed that, lately, a lot of the conversations I’ve had with other single women have taken to a similar tone—I like being single, but sometimes I just really don’t. And that’s fair, a little confusing, but fair—because I get it when people say that. I’ve been single for like 2 ½ years, and every…
Continue reading ➞ The Grass Isn’t Greener When There’s a Hand to Hold
I’ve been thinking a lot about Fear, mostly because I am very fearful. Fear is so big, well, at least it seems that way. It is humongous and covers every part of our lives in different ways—and in saying that, I don’t mean that constantly, we are fearful (although I’m pretty close), but that there…
In a class I took recently, one of my professors told a story about a couple 17-something year old Latinx students she had in one of her classes years ago. It was something along the lines of students needing to find something in a newspaper, that’s the extent of the premise that I remember. But…
Continue reading ➞ Colorful Classrooms and Whitewashed Curriculum
It is really easy to believe we are not enough—especially in our physical appearance. I was on Pinterest the other day, looking at the normalizing normal bodies movements, and I got really angry. All of the pictures seemed to be of really thin women whose tummies stay flat and crop tops fit perfectly. Why is…
