My thoughts after studying Audre Lorde’s “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”. Raw excerpt from my sociology journal. She says we should acknowledge our differences, not pretend to not see them. “I don’t see race. I don’t see class. I treat you like anyone else.” You mean you assume they’re like you,…
I recently told my therapist about a friendship which seems to be unraveling…or if not unraveling, certainly not gelling in the ways I had wanted to see it gel. After all, when someone doesn’t have time for you but appears to have time for other people, it’s time to question things. My therapist’s conclusion was,…
My thoughts after reading “The Sociological Imagination. Chapter One: The Promise”, by C. Wright Mills (1959). Many of society’s issues seem to be set up, largely influenced by people lacking sociological imagination. Greed. Xenophobia. Racism. Sexism. Homophobia. Transphobia. Classism. They set up a society in which only a few individuals can thrive above mere subsistence…
This was the day after leaving what was the most toxic place I have ever worked in my life. I fondly refer to that day as the day I got my life back. One of the few good things about that employer was it got me out of Syracuse and back to New York City. It’s…
I don’t have a sweet tooth: I have a head full of them. As a kid I could eat sweets until I made myself sick if left to my own devices. It isn’t about being hungry; it’s all about how good it tastes to me. The sweeter the food, the better. As I’ve gotten older…
