Dear VillageQ Family, My heart is breaking for my Muslim friends. The Islamophobic rantings, the characterization of Muslims as terrorists, the unconscionable suggestions that Muslims be banned or tagged or quarantined in the U.S.—this recent up-swell of hate is hurting so many good and peaceful people. While going about their […]
Divorce sucks and my kids no longer have the kind of mom they once had.
Thoughts on divorce: Yes, there will be an after.
When meeting someone new, we ask the same question: How does this person feel about LGBT people? But the underlying question is: Am I safe?
“It’s not your fault” and “We will always take care of you”—those phrases don’t have the leverage necessary to lift that weight.
I asked my kids, in the context of a conversation about song lyrics, what they think “sexy” means, and both my sons made it abundantly clear that they are suddenly totally disgusted by any talk about sex, bodies, or puberty.
This morning I dropped my ten-year-old son off at school with everything he needed to survive a two-night field trip in California’s Gold Country: two pairs of shorts (he hates pants), two shirts, two pairs each of underwear and socks, minimal toiletries, a jacket that he’s unlikely to wear, four […]
These bills are “a backlash reaction to achieving marriage equality for same-sex couples,” says Jane Henegar, executive director of the ACLU of Indiana. These bills threaten to erode our hard-won rights and protections.
Damn, Indiana, if you didn’t get me going this morning, by passing SB 101, described by Lambda Legal as a “deeply flawed bill designed to allow private businesses, individuals and organizations to discriminate against anyone in Indiana on religious grounds.”
We are all, always, embodiments of emergence. We’re just unaware of this fact until life presents us with ground-shaking change.
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