My coming out story is layered. I came out to myself as bisexual in 2001 or 2002 (I don’t remember which). I never struggled to accept myself as bisexual/pansexual; it was just new information I had about myself, not something to fight or fear. By then I was an adult long living and working on…
I don’t like when people tell me what to pay attention to and by an act of omission block my access to things they do not approve. This is what media gatekeepers do by choosing who to promote and when. An individual gatekeeper doesn’t have much sway, but multiple gatekeepers sharing the same prejudices narrows…
There are organic cookies I like which I cannot find in my predominantly working- and lower-middle class neighborhood here in the Bronx. When we lived in middle- and upper-middle class Kew Gardens I could walk up the block to the local organic market, and buy them as long as they were in stock. (They often…
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,…
