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Positive Philosophy Is Changing

March 25, 2024

For the past couple of years, I’ve been living more and more like a philosopher, and figuring out a little more each day what that actually means. While this has been true for

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Become Who You Are – Reflections into 2023

April 3, 2023

Straddling ever more platforms, I find myself “falling behind” or leaving gaps in what I hope one day presents as an organic archive of my process. Maybe when I die (or before…why not?)

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Learning Healing and How to Buy Me A Coffee

May 28, 2022

While my blog has been rather quite over here on *this* website, I have been writing in other places over the past several months. Part of the challenge has been figuring out where

They Don’t Tell You What It’s Like To Lose A Teacher—On bell hooks & Loving

December 20, 2021

Mourning someone you’ve never met, but whom you’ve read for years and years, is surprising and strange and sad all at once. In this culture, we’re hardly prepared to navigate grief and the

Lessons in Liberation: How to Break Up by Writing a Love Letter

November 18, 2021

My Dear, I mean absolutely no offense, but I cannot keep worrying about you when I’m trying to pour all my energy into getting good with myself. I’m over here trying to play,

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Two Twenty-Three 2020, Remembering Ahmaud Arbery

February 22, 2021

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Questions of Belonging: Living and Growing as a Feminist Philosopher

January 1, 2021

“The political struggle then becomes: to find a better way of answering questions, ways of questioning the questions, so that the world that makes some beings into questions becomes what we question.” –

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When Work and Liberation Meet: A Letter for Colleagues

November 15, 2020

Colleagues, We know in our hearts and minds that we need to do things differently. Whatever shifts we implement, whatever change we create, since we seek to do the deep work of social