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I hand wash my masksAnd hang them on the porch to dryA line I never thought I’d writeBut I never thoughtI’d do a lot of […]

I’ve been working on some plans to improve our Diversity & Inclusion at my company and as part of this renewed research, I came across […]

Many of us (me) are recognizing Juneneeth for the first time today. It seems so obvious that we should acknowledge the day everyone is America […]

I shared this on my social media last night (and in my family group text this morning), but I wanted to surface this article again […]

I’ll be honest, I keep crying today. And last night. I am functioning and ran errands and I’m dressed and I am fine, but also […]

When I was taught to be a womanI was taught that we were equalI was taught that ‘make me a sandwich’ jokesWere funny because they […]

“No matter how open-minded, socially conscious, anti-racist I think I am, I still have old, learned hidden biases that I need to examine. It is […]

I am borrowing other’s words more and more as I try to listen and learn and care more about learning the right thing rather than […]

I took a look at my reading list so far this year to see how many books I’d read by Black authors. I’ve read 42 […]

Breonna Taylor. Today would’ve been her 27th birthday. She’s a year younger than me. The officers who killed her have not been arrested. If you […]