Time to Mobilize: Youth Development Scholars and the Movement for Black Lives
This piece was originally posted on September 6, 2016 on the YN Blog of Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center…
Joint Reflections on Whiteness in Research: Missy Bird’s work on Contraceptive Access
Missy Bird, doctoral student in Social Work, reached out to me last week to share her crowd-funding campaign for her…
Enough
CW: sexual assault, silence I spent this morning working on a paper about training undergrads in bystander intervention…
Coming out in Academia: After the Pulse Nightclub Shooting
This piece was originally I was trained to not come out. It wasn’t specifically about hiding my gender identity or…
Including – but not limited to – sexual and romantic relationships
Dear University of Virginia, Read my blog, and then you’ll see why I want to join your Center to study…
Patriarchy in progressive Judaism/ In the middle of a shame experience
As they sign their Jewish marriage covenant, I feel the various threads of emotion start to twist and tangle again….
So you’re trying to figure me out?
I am a divorced pansexual queer femme trauma survivor. I am a smart successful sensitive spiritual progressive Jew. I am…
“You’ve done everything right up to this point”
The most dominant image I have is me sitting on my couch staring at the ceiling. But really I was…
Hopes and Dreams for 2016
Stop saying I “just” moved to NYC Cook – like, roasted vegetables and soups More reading and writing More music…
Having Feelings in Public (& Other Themes of 2015)
I didn’t mean to alarm people with my Facebook statuses; I just wanted to share. But perhaps there’s something in…