I joined Twitter in 2009, after most of my tech oriented friends, and I thought I was late to the game. I had no idea what the platform would become. In the early days most tweets were experiments, as users wondered what the platform might be good for. We were still in the last dying […]
It’s Veterans Day, and I am thinking about all the Americans who have served their country, risking or giving their lives to serve the interests of our nation. I’m thinking also of foreign nationals, like the thousands of Iraqi translators, who risked their safety to serve the U.S. Military — they may not have enlisted
If you love a veteran, get a vaccine. Read More »
For every queer person, coming out is a defining experience, not unlike a volcanic eruption. It is preceded by a slow build of pressure as we come to terms with our own identity and consider the potential ramifications of telling the people most important in our lives. Next comes the moment of declaration, a release
On Queer Haircuts, Gatekeeping, and the Value of Identity Read More »
America will try to portray the killer as an outlier, but he is the product of a poison that pervades our history and our modern-day society.
Dylann Roof is the Monster White America Deserves Read More »
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, miners in the Pocono Mountains and other coal-rich regions often lived in company towns, built around the site of a mine. They paid their rent to their employer, who built and owned all houses in the town, just as they bought their groceries, clothing, and other provisions
The Company Town in the Twenty-First Century Read More »
The lukewarm response from many white Americans to the murder of Trayvon Martin has been upsetting – but I think it has less to do with overt racism, and more to do with white America’s reluctance to believe that racism is alive and well in America, and not just a part of our past.
Trayvon Martin and the myth of a post-racial America Read More »
Literary agent Colleen Lindsay this morning tweeted Laura Miller’s recent Salon article about how the future of literature will be shaped by e-book and on-demand print self-publishing services. Miller observes that these services promote themselves as a means to circumvent the “elite literary gatekeepers,” and that their customers are really authors, not readers. She points out,
Self-publish, or learn to fly? Read More »
