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Making Good: Let's Get to (Meaningful) Work
In 2007, Paul Hawken published Blessed Unrest, which documented a new type of movement. One which has no single leader, but in which many people are leading. There are literally millions of...
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The Eve Ensler Cycle
When is the last time you saw a show that was directed, performed and written by womyn? This used to feel like an intangible dream to me until I saw Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues in college 8 years...
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Having the Talk With My Son
Recently, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by the Oakland Tribune. It was for Hoodies: Why parents of teens of color have the 'survival' talk? in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin....
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Challenging the Model Minority Myth
I remember the first time someone called me out on not understanding my identity. It happened my freshman year of college at a social justice workshop in which I was asked to express my racial...
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Middle of Nowhere- Film Review
For a public that never met a crime show it didn’t love, plenty of perspectives on crime and punishment are missing from mainstream media. Enter Ava DuVernay, writer and director of Middle of Nowhere,...
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Struggle: Timely, Chilling Documentary on Voter Suppression and Election...
Struggle is a documentary film about what happens in U.S. elections when the forces of racism, corruption, technological manipulation and old fashioned ballot-box stuffing coalesce to deny Americans...
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Blogging for Human Rights Day
Last week, our country re-elected a President who has been an outspoken supporter of DREAM activists, LGBTQ people and families, and the green economy. Yet, the United States clearly has a long way to...
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Two Heroes- One Media Darling
The other day I read a disturbing headline. “Worker jumps into vat of acid to save colleague.” A roofer in New Jersey had fallen 40ft. through a roof into a vat of nitric acid and one of his...
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It Is about Race
A recent report showed that in our country an African-American male is killed by the police every 36 hours. That's at least one life lost every day and a half and amounts to 243 deaths a year.Yet...
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The Mass Incarceration Crisis Reaches Sesame Street
Sesame Street is talking to kids about incarceration and I don’t know how I feel about it.On the one hand, as a brown kid growing up in 1980s Central California with a stay-at-home dad (something my...
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