Food. Eating. The theatre. Gryffindor House. University educator, theatre director. Short-sleeved shirt over a long-sleeved shirt? Yep. I invented that.
One year ago, a violent attack on our Capitol made it clear just how fragile the American experiment in democracy really is. Here’s my statement on what the anniversary means, and what we need to do today.
12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.
In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
The killing of #GeorgeFloyd exposed the issue of police violence to more and more people -- seeing was (finally) believing for them.
Regardless of the verdict, the work continues.
When the polio vaccine dropped in 1955 people lined up to get it, & we were 2 years away from artificial satellites. Now in 2021 we carry external world-brains in our pockets & there’s robots on Mars and idiots think the COVID vaccine is full of wizard poison.
And yet, this morning not a single Republican calling on Matt Gaetz to resign over sex trafficking - or calling on Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson, who according to Gaetz was a firsthand witness of the two.