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Chills, hair standing on end. Fighting the urge to rise to my feet in my corporate cubicle. Especially if you are white, you need to hear this. Watch it. Listen. Listen again.

For my dear darling friend Naomi Kritzer on the horrible occasion of her beautiful, kind, brilliant, thoughtful, and powerful mother’s sudden and unexpected death. Dirge Without Music BY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, forContinue reading “I am not resigned, either. For Naomi.”

When you spout hate every day about Latinx people and about TLBG people as if our very presence in this country and in its bathrooms is a lurking menace and then someone shoots up a gay club on Latin night, you need to look at yourself and your contribution to this rather than clinging desperately to your gunsContinue reading “Orlando”

Ali’s great-grandfathers emigrated to the United States from County Clare, meaning that  the three-time heavyweight world champion joins the likes of President Obama and Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as prominent African-Americans with Irish heritage. In the 1860s, Abe Grady left Ennis in County Clare to start a new life in America.  He would makeContinue reading “. . . and he was also Irish”

“I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”   “I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.”   “Why should they ask meContinue reading “The Greatest was BLACK”

You guys my friend Margie Newman is setting up a Go Fund Me to get the sustained time she needs to write her memoir about growing up the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.   She is a gripping, tough, sensitive, funny and strong writer and I can’t wait to read this book. I hope ifContinue reading “Help Margie tell her story!”

The night after Prince died, the DJ upstairs cranked Raspberry Beret on repeat while he and his friends sand along with it, and kept up the music all night. I had a job interview in the morning but I did not have the heart to ask him to turn it down. ❤ On my wayContinue reading “Dearly Beloved . . .”

I keep forgetting to link my Bitter Butch advice columns here! Dear Bitter Butch, Last week someone brought their twins into the office. They are, I dunno, less than a year old? The boy is starting to walk, the girl hasn’t yet, so however old that would make them. And the boy was crying. AndContinue reading “Dear Bitter Butch: How Do I Handle Terrible Parenting?”

Hey, writer friends, particularly WOMEN OF COLOR and TRANS women: Here’s a paying market! $100/piece.   My friend Dena Marie Landon is launching a hybrid fashion blog and feminist magazine in September called Femme Feminism.   FROM DENA: The site’s mission is to create an inclusive community for all women, feminine and non-binary, to discussContinue reading “Call for pitches: Femme Feminism”