I voted on Tuesday and came out to the news that more children had been killed by gun violence. They were not my biological children, but they were still mine to care about and to keep safe, to help grow and live. When children die from guns, we are all responsible. When children kill other … Continue reading I’m not trying to take your guns.
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“She just hated shoes.”
I didn’t share a name with my children during the painful conversation about Selma, because this name deals with a different aspect of hatred that I’m even less equipped to discuss. Jimmie Lee Jackson and James Reeb were both men. Viola Liuzzo was a woman, and her story is a brutal example of how misogyny … Continue reading “She just hated shoes.”