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A Heart Unites. A Fear Divides.

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

THE OTHERING that is responsible for the violence leveled on Latinos and Asians and Muslims and African Americans and Gays and Women and Transgendered people by those who do not understand and who do not wish to understand themselves or others is the same in a few very important ways.

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a september remembered

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

NEVER FORGET. This is what many people say about September 11th, 2001. I say it, too. Though I’m not sure I mean it in the same way. Herein is a tale, including diary entries made from NYC during the WTC explosions, of the changes that those horrifically violent and altogether terrifying events inspired in me. They changed me forever, and in some ways, I would be unrecognizable to you now, had they not occurred.