Tag: mourning

This year was the first Christmas I’ve had the chance to celebrate. I bought gifts for friends, decorated a Christmas tree, watched movies, and went to Christmas markets, yet things have been feeling far from festive. I could only go into the holiday season with a heavy heart. What is there to...

“What to a slave is the Fourth of July?” inquired Frederick Douglass, and I echo his sentiments. What to America’s Indigenous communities is Thanksgiving? A day of feasting to commemorate a genocide. The fabrication of history to wipe the stain of slaughter from our collective m...