Tag: Innocence

I remember the first time a child approached me with a curious look in the eye. They were staring at my wheelchair as though it were a transformer. Are you a robot? he bluntly asked. No, I’m a cyborg dumbo, I replied. Half man, half machine. He nodded like a wise old man.&nb...

Dr. Claudine Gay’s treatment as former President of Harvard, as many have noticed, is certainly an example of systemic racism. But it’s not just because of the mistreatment, abuse, and distortion of leadership intent and power of a competent woman of color. It’s systemic racism in ...

According to my mother, growing up in Shanghai in the 1930s her father was a great lover of German Shepard dogs. He kept a kennel full of them and my mother came to love these dogs as well. One of them was named Billow. She spoke often of playing with Billow and the other dogs as a young girl in the...