No Empathy, No Patience, No Fucking More
No Empathy, No Patience, No Fucking More This week has been difficult for many reasons. Police murdering black men in Minnesota and Louisiana and then the slaughter of police officers in Dallas. I am...
Tagged: Civil Liberties and Advocacy Efforts
High School Journalism
I received a request for an interview from a high school student, writing for their school newspaper. This isn’t the first time I’ve consented to an interview for a school newspaper or a term...
Advocacy Scars…
I’ve been involved with civil liberties advocacy for over 20 years. I actually started in a limited manner while on active duty, when I wrote my Congressional delegation in my own name to protest...
Statement on Life and Death of Julian Bond
The Multiracial Activist Statement on Life and Death of Julian Bond I had a lot of respect for this man, even while disagreeing vehemently with the NAACP’s utterly repugnant, indefensible and outright...
Fuck Off, Ryan Sorba (or Right-Wing Homophobes Are Very Silly People)
So, right-wing Victim of the Gay Agenda Ryan Sorba recently spammed me with more of his questionable “reporting” in order to spread his homophobic hate message. Feeling in no mood to listen to yet...
Vigilantism Does Not Equal Competent Advocacy.
Sharon Haywood, writing for Adios Barbie on “Street Harassment: Is “Turning the Tables” Really the Answer?“: “Friends emailed me the link, allies posted and praised it on Twitter, and my Facebook newsfeed was overtaken...
Advocacy Builds and Restores (or You May Be Doing it Wrong)
Jenni Chiu, writing for The Huffington Post, on "Stop Making the Thin Girl Ugly": I stumbled across a petition on Change.org started by a fellow blogger whom I happen to adore. I've met her....
Advocacy and Ego Don’t Mix (or Get Over Yourself and Start Being Effective)
I’ve been involved in advocacy work since 1997 on a variety of issues and causes. Actually, I started on April 23, 1993, when I wrote letters to Senators Simon and Moseley-Braun protesting DADT and...
Getting Things Done (or Hero Worship Is Not My Bag, Baby)
I've been involved in many advocacy efforts and worked with a lot of organizations on a wide variety of issues over the years, starting with the multiracial movement, libertarian and anarcho-libertarian philosophies, a plethora...
Please, Feminists, Can We Stop With the “Dudes” Already?!
The always awesome Vas Littlecrow on Feminism 101: Helpful Hints for Feminists Who Refer To Men as Dudes: Finally, just as “babe” and “chick” are semi-derogatory terms that potentially minimize women, so are “dude”...