Far from living “in a bubble,” some of us are intimately familiar with fascists. — I read this tweet by A.R. Moxon two nights ago at 3 a.m., having fallen asleep in my clothes again, then gotten up to brush my teeth, tip-toeing past my 12-year-old on a couch — eyes closed and mouth open — because only when in the same room with her…

The dangers of culturally incompetent journalism — Hello to everyone over 30, the line where Baby Boomers decided adults were no longer trustworthy, until they themselves crossed that line. I’m from Generation X, the last generation that took pleasure in opening a hard copy of the Sunday paper, thick as a small city’s phone book (if you’re…

I help run a Facebook page that supports COVID-19 safety measures in my kids' school district. We established it when local parents in the Open Schools Now movement were pushing to get teachers back into classrooms in Dec 2019/Jan 2020, when we knew a vaccine was on the way, but…

Fight transphobia. Know the facts. — For National Coming Out Day 2019, I wrote this Twitter thread on trans children coming out as a follow-up to transphobic comments after Jacob, a trans boy, asked Elizabeth Warren, a candidate to be the Democratic Presidential nominee, how she would help trans kids feel safer in schools in the…

The GOP excuses murderers, but calls protesters “violent” — As he was leaving the White House after President Trump’s acceptance speech last Thursday, Senator Rand Paul pushed through a crowd of shouting protesters. No one was injured. Afterwards, he tweeted, “Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House. Thank you…

Harry Potter was defining for a generation. It was truly a phenomenon. My kids read the books, watched the movies, and listened to the audio books. But the author’s crusade — and I use that word deliberately — against trans rights has poisoned all my feelings about her work. JK…

This originally appeared as a public post on my Facebook profile. Want to support my community work? Contribute to my Patreon. Note to white allies: When you beat up on your fellow white people for being ignorant about racism, you are NOT HELPING. Those naïve white people just waking up…