“We want to get what we work for, we want to get what we deserve, and for us to get back to our students,” said Tawanda Evans, a special education assistant at Banneker Career Transition Center in Los Angeles. She has worked with LAUSD for 27 years.
As I stroll on TikTok, I keep seeing parents video their children reacting to The Little Mermaid trailer. So instead of focusing so much on the negative, I thought I’d show a thread of the little black kids who are excited to see their favorite princess look like them.
And then there are the Christians who say “now our work begins…let’s care for them.” That’s terrifying: if you can’t care for people until you win, then your theology never saw their humanity in the first place. They were only pawns in your game. That’s not of God or Jesus.
I don’t think people realize that it is perfectly fine to be pro-life for your own body, but you can’t force that on someone else’s body. That is their decision.
You either make privileged people uncomfortable, or marginalized people unsafe.
You can’t have the comfort of the privileged AND the safety of the marginalized at the same time.
They cannot coexist.
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Christian faith would be much healthier and healing if we didn’t see our faith as a way of winning arguments and power but a way of liberating and loving people.
It's very disturbing that a party that is willing to let women suffer & die to ensure fetuses are carried to term won't protect actual living children by restricting gun ownership in sensible ways.
Vaccination has always been part of the complex calculations involved with organ transplant.
Flu vaccines? Required.
So when people try to anger you about the dad who couldn’t get a heart transplant because he wasn’t vaccinated? Don’t let them trick you.
This is not new.