When Victims Are Put on Trial
June 23, 2020
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In their young efforts to comfort my despair over George Floyd, my boys offered this: “Mom, he did have meth in his system and had been
parental alienation
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I Refused the Illusion of Harmony
June 17, 2020
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My steady refusal of gifts and staged harmony—in place of healing, repair, and honest connection—made something clear: I was no longer willing to bypass necessary
The Difference Between Abuse and Torture
June 9, 2020
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Torture—unlike abuse, which is often spontaneous and unintentional, though still scarring—is premeditated. It is designed to methodically dismantle a person’s identity and humanity. To destroy
MY Non-Black Privilege
June 8, 2020
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I was born with un-white skin, a foreign name, one Middle Eastern Muslim parent, and one Agnostic Jewish parent. Later, bussed across town to the