If you’re in a good relationship, celebrate that today. Don’t patronize your single friends. Don’t act like you forgot the day. Even a bog standard date on Valentine’s Day ain’t a horror show.
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The Inclusivity of Sport
There are few avenues in life where I have felt more welcome and included than as part of a sports fandom. For a few hours, I didn’t have to be The Muslim representative or wasn’t seen as The Brown Guy.
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The Model Minority Myth and Maher
The Model Minority Myth bolsters the idea that Asians experience less hate & prejudice because $$. And explains lack of empathy with our struggles.
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On Building An Inclusive Society
Maybe it’s not just a funny joke that the Irish were once seen as subhuman. Maybe we’re all better off including new people just because it’s the right thing to do.
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On the Fragility of Our Connections
On the nature & fragility of friendship, of love & its connections & how people so often change the connections they have always known.
Continue readingLetting Go of Ourselves to Gain Something of Someone Else
On the concept of letting go, sacrificing a smidge of control in one’s life in the pursuance of love, of relationships etc…
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Discrimination and the Systemic Capriciousness of Achievement in the USA
When I was 12, my father told me, “In this country, you will always need to be 2, 3, or even 4 times better than any white person.” YEP.
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Fear is the Heart of Love
“Fear is the heart of love” Towards the end of a recent Peloton class, I heard the preceding lyric from a Death Cab for
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Energy Vampirism & the Cultivation of New Adult Relationships
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about friendships and relationships and how we grow and nurture new entrants into our lives as we age.
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Talent & Hard Work in the Arts
Is it my blinders, my relative inexperience or does society often give short shrift to craftsmanship and training in the arts?
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