Story: Charlie

Story: Charlie

Charlie was the unloved love-child of the beautiful flame-haired Alice Anderson and the wild and stubborn James Johnston. Alice was tall and willowy and full of gentle grace. The oldest of 6, auburn-haired and softly freckled, she could have had any boy, and there...
Social Justice Warrior

Social Justice Warrior

Social Justice Warrior. I hear the label slung at people with derision, with contempt, with bitterness, maybe even fear. I think the phrase generates lots of discomfort, resentment, and anger. It’s mostly used as an insult, a challenge to do battle as in...
Self-grace

Self-grace

So how do you hold yourself accountable without beating yourself up when you are disappointed in yourself? Of what possible value is shame? Remorse, maybe, but shame? Can we harvest all of the good parts of holding ourselves accountable without being harmfully...
Zine Production

Zine Production

Last month I was asked to lead a workshop on making zines at an equity in education summit. It ended up that 3 other folks presented with me. The first part of the presentation ran long, so I didn’t get to share much about the actual production of zines, so here...
Zine Making Workshop

Zine Making Workshop

Last month I was asked to lead a workshop on making zines at an equity in education summit. It ended up that 3 other folks presented with me. Here is my part of the presentation. So, what is a zine? A zine is a small-circulation self-published work of original, or...