Race

July 6, 2021

My Open Letter to City Designers

I originally wrote this email for the Des Moines City Council. For the past year, I’ve adjusted the verbiage to reflect what I’ve heard in their City Council Meetings with the Public. I also adjust the bullet points and actions I (and others) wish to see them take. Otherwise, most of the letters are verbatim Continue reading

activism, Author, disability, Race, transgender

ableism, access, accessibility, Accessible Cities, disability, disability justice, Disability Pride, Fight Ableism, Homelessness, No More Ableism
April 24, 2021

We Are the Fire

We Are the Fire By Aidan Zingler Words pull push, agitate, infuriateI’m the fury of the world not seen.I beg, I cajole, I reason, I askI’m the pain of the dead not seen.Time is running out, time is running Black Lives burn bright and extinguish, Stars howl their sorrow at their lossDisabled flames smolder and Continue reading

Author, disability, Feminism, Poetry, Race, transgender, Writing

Abolition, anti-racism, creation, Disabled Lives Matter, feminism, justice, Movements, oppression, poetry, Race, social justice
January 2, 2021

First Essay of 2021: Nothing about People is a Binary

Human beings are complex. We can both criticize each other and yet still love each other; the criticism does not mean our love is false, and yet society teaches us thus. This binary thinking is killing us. Our society teaches us that everything is a binary: either we are Black or White, Man or Woman, Continue reading

Author, Blogging, disability, Feminism, Philosophy, Race, transgender, Writing

4 R's, accountability, binary thinking, dismantling bias, dismantling binary thinking, healing, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, reciprocity, relationship, Respect, responsibility
October 12, 2020

Indigeous Peoples’ Day: We Need to Show Up Year Round

Indigenous People’s Day. The wind blows fiercely as the leaves tumble down the sidewalk. At the capitol, Indigeous people speak their truths, broadcast it in a livestream. Around them and us, Western Society throttles on slowly, its gears mucked up with Mother Nature, the pandemic slowly everything down. Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff (Unangan Tunuu) and Libby Continue reading

disability, Race, Writing

anti-capitalism, anti-racism, being in relation, disability, disability justice, dismantle imperialism, dismantling whiteness, indigenous, Indigenous Peoples' Day, Indigenous rights, relationship, white privilege
September 10, 2020

Tackling Ableism Framing

I’m going to discuss Ableism framing in this article, and to do so, I’ll use an example from a friend (who attends social distancing church services). First, let’s cover some basic definitions. Definitions: Abled-bodied person is a person who is not disabled. As in they have no physical or mental disabilities. Or they are someone Continue reading

Author, disability, Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

ableism, ableism narratives, disability, disability justice, disabled, discrimination, mobility justice
May 28, 2020

Riots are the Language of the Unheard

Important point by Robert Jones, Jr. (Son of Baldwin): Property damage should never matter more than people’s lives. If anyone cares more about the looting and damage to property, then I’m gonna ask y’all to sit down and think hard about every single death by police. Police are waging war on Black folks; folks fighting Continue reading

Author, Blogging, Race, Writing

anti-racism, Black uprising, minnesota, police murder, protest, Race, white supremacy, whiteness
December 10, 2019

Crosspost from Patreon: Examining Whiteness

Crossposted from my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/examining-32183696 Examining Whiteness Our culture is saturated with whiteness; whiteness and its performative values are socialized within all of us from a young age. Those who are not white are socialized to react to whiteness in specific ways, and those who are white (or white-passing) are socialized to perform whiteness without Continue reading

Author, Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

checking one’s privilege, dismantling bias, dismantling whiteness, racism, white fragility, white privilege, white supremacy, whiteness
April 28, 2019

Deconstructing the Biases Within

Crossposted to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25299584 Deconstructing the biases within Everyone has a bias of which we may or may not be aware. This isn’t to say that everyone is bad — biases are due to socialization by a imperfect and often discriminatory society, where we internalize the racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist ideologies of society from Continue reading

Author, Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

ableism, bias, cisnormative, colonialism, deconstructing bias, feminism, heteronormativity, indigenous, intersectional feminism, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Race, sexism, transgender, white supremacy
April 5, 2019

Compilation of Thoughts

About Taxes and Poor People and the Narratives surrounding both Written January 17, 2019: I know folks don’t like reading long things, but I really thought hard about the twitter feud going on about the post concerning taxes. Read what I wrote here if you want. Walk away if you want. This is the twitter Continue reading

Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

facts, feminism, impact we have, love, narratives, politics, poor people, taxes
January 12, 2019

Re-imagining a Better Future

Re-imagining a Better Future In order to re-imagine a better future, we first have to dismantle myths that end discussions about solutions before we can even begin them. Dismantling myths https://twitter.com/diannaeanderson/status/1081357243344244736 I read that thread in full. It lists what the tax laws were from 1940s through 1980s, and the impact that had on America, Continue reading

Feminism, History, Race, transgender, Writing

capitalism, climate change, economic justice, future, history, income inequality, justice, social justice, socialism, taxes, universal basic income, universal healthcare, work ethic