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And This is the Post on Love

During the 2008 Democratic National Convention Joe Biden’s son told the story of the death of his mother and the way his family rebuilt itself after tragedy. Halfway through his speech he uttered a line that still plays in my heart, “And then we married Jill.” I didn’t have the world’s best childhood. The first [...]

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Hipster Shrugged

Yeah yeah I’m a day late on this, but Julian & co are hilarious.

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Marginalized folks shouldn’t always have to be “the bigger persons”

originally published September 2009 on What Tami Said Teaching moments are wonderful, but I think that no marginalized person is obligated to swallow justified hurt and anger to better “teach” the privileged or “squash” the mess or racism. That people of color are nearly always asked to do so in the face of prejudice is [...]

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