I’ve felt like I can’t write about anything until I write about this. But I also can’t write about this. So no writing for me, it seems. It’s not like this is any excuse, you know, but I was already mad. I was already mad about the kids getting killed at schools and people getting […]
Category: U.S. culture
Lost it at the women’s imaging center in Cherry Creek
I have a lump in my left breast. OMG EVERYONE FREAK OUT NOW. I got it biopsied in 2016. Against my will. Obgyn said, “I’m not really worried but just go get an ultrasound.” Ultrasound tech said, “I’m not really worried but we’re gonna do a biopsy.” And you know, I wasn’t really that worried […]
Wokesgiving part 3
An uncle at Thanksgiving: I’ve been reading your blog. Me: I regret everything I’ve written.
Wokesgiving part 2
Mom: There’s a typo in your blog. Me: I have like five hundred blog posts. Sometimes I make typos. Mom: Also the first Thanksgiving wasn’t in Virginia. Me: Well we were talking about Virginia last night I don’t know. That’s not really the point of the post. Mom: But as a writer that’s your job. […]
Wokesgiving
Mom: We shouldn’t even do thanksgiving anymore. The whole story is a lie. Do you know what really happened between the settlers and the Indians in Virginia? Me: You guys are pretty woke parents. Dad: What’s woke? Mom: AOC says the term woke is over. So Thanksgiving and woke are canceled this year but the […]
I believe in a world without prisons
I believe in a world without prisonswithout police without borders without detention centers without ICE I started believing in these things after I read Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown. I specifically remember reading the line in the book where she said, I believe in a future without prisons. And I remember thinking, wow that’s […]
A rant (that might not be about what you expect)
I have thought about going back to school many times. Many. Times. I have considered: a nursing degree, a masters in education, a tesol certificate, a master of arts, and a masters of fine arts (which I did actually apply for once but only to schools that did not require the GRE and I did […]
Frenemy
It’s a story that’s been told and a story that’s been lived: those in power pit the poor against the poor. We get distracted fighting over scraps and we forget that we’re actually in this together. Win or lose. Either we’re all about to get really good health care. Or we’re all about to be […]
Vote
IDK if you heard but we’re voting republicans out of office today.
Racism, Instagram, and me
“White women are the people I’m most scared of.” -a black woman artist Well that was a hard one to swallow when I read it. And I think that the fact that it was hard to swallow is where it holds truth. I’ve spent a lot of my adulthood supporting (white) feminist causes. But instead […]
Anne Foster 