None of us is free until all of us are free
This post is going to be profoundly self-indulgent (and possibly not particularly well-written). For that, I apologize. Certainly there are other people dealing with much worse as we enter the second week of what is already proving to be a terrible administration. But this issue has been a slow background drain on my mental
I have seen the messages of positivity and love on Facebook. On Twitter. Via text. I appreciate them … but I am not there yet. At some point, my warmth, my humor, my kindness will all return, although I will never again trust in the goodness of humanity the way
The story I’m telling here is not mine. It is the story of—well, you will see. I am sharing it here just as it was told to me, omitting only the name. I was asked to do that because this woman—a faculty member at a prominent university; I will identify