Because a number of my maternal ancestors settled in South Butler, New York, and surrounding communities in the first decades of the 19th century, I have mused on any possible connections between my family and the social ferment bubbling around them. In the course of...
Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt, the U.S., Ukraine, South Africa, and… I started writing this before the latest decree by the Taliban banning women from education post-puberty. And while Iranian women were leading their revolution despite new tortuous rapes and...
People with physical disabilities are regarded in mainstream media as enfeebled noncontributors who need to be taken care of. But far from being something that holds people with disabilities back, mobility aides mean independence, access, and inclusion.
The eight-year sentencing of Jessica Reznicek, an Iowan Water Protector arrested for her part in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, has once again spotlighted the criminalization that environmental and climate activists face in the United States. Yet, as the...
