Tag: Fighting

I doubt Ben Carson went through a quarter of the stress I’m going through. If he did, he wouldn’t have written eight books, the most popular of which being Gifted Hands, motivating people (excluding me) to attend medical school. I’m a fair person though so I agree whole heartedl...

I am not a fan of superhero movies. From what I’ve seen, most of the mainstream superhero genre is orientalist, racist, misogynist, and profoundly white (Dr Strange is an obvious example here, on a number of levels). It seems that a modern superhero is not required to fight the ...

I didn’t know you as well before I gave birth to you. I am the middle daughter of three (eventually I gained a stepbrother, but not until adolescence); my formative life in all its fragments was female until there were two shining pieces that shaped themselves as my baby sons. And then two mor...

Far gone are the days when a young man would marry his sweet, home-scientist of a housewife, join his local post office as a clerk with a passing certificate from his high-school and manage to buy a comfortable suburban home in a couple of years. The average man is not earning enough anymore. He is ...

The reality for people with disabilities is a life with poorer outcomes than those that live without the need for additional support. As recently as February 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has collected data that shows the barriers these individuals still face in a modern capita...

The first quote is from Donald J. Trump, in his Executive Order to “Combat the rise of antisemitism.” The second quote was shared by Mike Pence in his statement at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum. The third quote comes from Pastor John Hagee during a “Night to Honor Israe...

It would be difficult to find a more accurate and apt rendering of the current conflict in Gaza than this, if we substitute the Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defence Forces Rav Aluf Herzi Halevi, for Titus, and the Merkava battle tank for ‘horse’ in the above quote. Just as...

That’s because, once upon a time, the area where the downtown convention center now sprawls was a dense neighborhood of poor and working people, and its metamorphosis into today’s business and tourist-friendly district was the result of the mass demolition of thousands of homes in the 19...

The two of us decided to grab a falafel (yes, there are a bunch of Arabic restaurants in Brasil) during our one hour break before heading back to the school to practice Forró. After some small talk, we discovered that we both graduated the same year from the University of Southern Califo...