What unites us? Dan Rather visits Boston.
Dissenters—be they Revolutionary War patriots or women in knitted pink pussy hats—point to the truth. This defense of the truth, and our liberty to speak it, is what makes America great.
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Straight for Justice: Queer Rights for the Straight Girl
Outlier Collective asked me to write about LGBT/queer issues, namely, “to what extent can we, as hetero-identifying people who are LGBT allies, discuss queer issues, even when we support them completely? Do we have… Continue reading
don’t shoot the messenger: gun violence in America
I’m starting to wonder if we’re ever going to get a grip on gun violence. In the past few days alone, a one-year-old baby was shot in the face and killed in his… Continue reading
a peace prayer from Boston to Syria
Have you been paying attention to Syria’s civil war? As a Financial Times’ editorial noted last Wednesday, the conflict is now spreading, becoming a regional war as it spills over the border into… Continue reading
whatever happened to Mary Jane? The politics of pot & the new NORML
With Massachusetts poised to be the 18th state to legalize medicinal marijuana, the politics of pot are set to reach a new high. According to Ballotpedia, the Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Initiative, aka Question 3, will appear… Continue reading
Os Gêmeos color Boston
Art for the people, by the people: Boston just got a lot cooler this summer. The MassDOT building in Dewey Square, part of Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway, is the canvas for an enormous… Continue reading
sluts to watch out for
Back in the 1980s, when I was at Barnard, there was a pioneering comic strip we used to read called Dykes to Watch Out For. Written and illustrated by Alison Bechdel, the series explored… Continue reading