I feel our humanity leaching away with each passing day. I feel it seeping from our collective body with each preschool teacher detained in front of their students. With each person dragged from their car and hauled off to a detention center. With each door ICE agents knock down without a warrant. With each person…
When we walked out into the field at Grant Park, Chicagoans and their neighbors of all kinds surrounded us – young and old; Black, Latine, white, Asian, Native, and Middle Eastern; straight, gay, lesbian, bi; cis and trans; and on and on. They carried signs, dressed in costumes, held their children’s hands. We listened to…
It is natural for us as humans to seek security. We are motivated to find every opportunity for ourselves and our families to be safe. When we encounter difference, we are primed to see that difference as a threat to our security, and we react accordingly. Immigrants are, by definition, different. They have come to…
The usual is usual because it usually happens. We think we know exactly what is going to occur, because what we suppose is what most often comes to pass. But in a moment, everything can change. We learn this lesson again and again in life. A new job we didn’t think we would earn. Dramatic…
Entwining 