We tend to think of time as a pretty universal concept. Most of us know it’s pretty human-made, the way that we use the hours on the clock, and that some countries or regions use daylight savings and some don’t, that military time versus am/pm is a factor, and that where you are in theContinue reading “Around the World: How do YOU tell time?”
Category Archives: Learn a Little
Announcements!
In lieu of a post today, I would like to make two announcements. Firstly, I have posted the Glossary page. It’s in its infancy stages, so comment here (or using the box on the page itself) on what other terms you’d like to see defined. I’m excited to build this page to help us allContinue reading “Announcements!”
A Response to Repossession: Reclaimed Slurs and Lexicography
I have always found words to carry great power. The pen is mightier than the sword, they say, and I believe it to be true. As an avid reader in my youth, words built worlds and tore them down; a good book could quiet me from any crying spell, and I’d lose myself in myContinue reading “A Response to Repossession: Reclaimed Slurs and Lexicography”
The Unbearable Solitude of Being an African Fan Girl
Originally posted on omenana:
By Chinelo Onwualu Being an African fan girl is a strange, liminal thing. You’re never quite sure that you exist, you see. A part of you is rooted in your culture and its expectations for how a woman ought to behave – church, family, school – but another is flying off…
Whole Foods, Detroit, and Englewood, Chicago.
If you haven’t ever read about the food options available in lower-economic neighborhoods, and how there’s usually one small, not well stocked, dimly lit, poorly serviced supermarket (if even that) and the rest of the options are corner stores, combined with the options presented often being calorie-heavy and nutritionally-light, this is not the place toContinue reading “Whole Foods, Detroit, and Englewood, Chicago.”
How I Afford to Travel… And You May Not Like What I’m Going To Say
Originally posted on Kate from the States:
The honest truth – I never have the money I need to travel, but I buy the ticket anyway. I’ve realized that money comes and goes, but the more I make, the harder it is to part with it and weirdly, the less I have, the easier it…
Going to the Water: Cherokee Perspectives on Cherokee Culture
Language is so important. The language we choose to express ourselves in, the individual words we choose, and keeping traditional languages alive and living, moving with the cultures they are a part of. Part of why multilingual people are generally smart is because they’re using more of their brains. Another reason is that they’re moreContinue reading “Going to the Water: Cherokee Perspectives on Cherokee Culture”
Send who back to where? When will you send yourself?
White supremacists have always been a group that, at least from a distance, I find really interesting. The thought process that has to go into genuinely segregating oneself so much that they cannot see the humanity in another person, or just don’t care to know it, and often still identify very strongly with Christian orContinue reading “Send who back to where? When will you send yourself?”
Changing the School Discipline Structure
Have you heard about the racial disparity in punishments faced by students in public school systems nationwide? According to Dr. Bernadeia Johnson, superintendent of schools for the Minneapolis public school district, In Minneapolis, a low-income black student is six times more likely than a white student to be suspended for at least one day in a school year.Continue reading “Changing the School Discipline Structure”
Only Empathy Can Solve This. Can You Find Yours?
This civil rights lawyer sort of put my thoughts into words way better than I could’ve. It’s really true. Maybe some people are getting facts wrong. Maybe some people are saying facts don’t matter. But the point is this; sometimes facts and labels make for great talking points. They make for great ways for peopleContinue reading “Only Empathy Can Solve This. Can You Find Yours?”
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