Culture

I had her in my life for eighteen years and ten months before I got the call on a snowy April morning in 1982 that she had died the night before, of a massive heart attack. We lived across the…

Freedom is enjoying your work so much that you would keep doing it even if the money stopped, and being in the position to actually do it. Most people love a thing they are never allowed to spend their days…

On July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, at a meeting organized by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, Frederick Douglass delivered his now famous speech “What To the Slave is the Fourth of July?”  In this the…

Freedom is responsibility with a sexier name.

There’s only one freedom and that is freedom in Palestine and the occupation ending. Then we can talk about freedom anywhere. All our freedoms today are failed because of this nation held captive on their own land.

Freedom is about choice. You have your Classic Coke or Pepsi and your Diet Coke or Pepsi and your Coke Zero (my personal favorite!) or Pepsi Zero Sugar. All of those come with or without caffeine. Plus there are the…

I long to one day live in a country with more freedom available to me and everyone I know and don’t know, more than we’ve all ever known. And for that to be this country. But that has felt like…

Freedom is the opportunity for each person to have what they need to move towards who they want to be.  This means recognition, access, support, communication, and a reconfiguration of hierarchies so that what we strive for advances others as…