Instead of our former transactional interactions, let's pause and think about what the person beside us saw this past year. Let’s be empathetic, genuine, and intentional. Let’s actually stop and grab that meal, and then another this time around.
The vision of intercultural health systems is to have intercultural health programs serve as one component of a larger effort for Indigenous self-determination and autonomy.
Without any form of reparations, America will never even begin to truly repay the tremendous debt it owes to its Black citizens for centuries of devastation and exploitation.
As an intersex person who feels fortunate they were not forced to undergo genital-“normalizing” operations, I feel the need to to amplify the voices of those more marginalized within this community, who have a simple message: Let intersex kids be.
As Asian Americans, we are told that we have it good. But what do we make of the Atlanta massage parlor shootings, or the beatings of our elders in the streets, in the shadow of this enforced ethnic ignorance?
Critiques and summaries of “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” often reduce it to an apologetics paper for brutal “Chinese” parenting, but it’s true message is one of syncretism and parental evolution.
There is nothing the Americans do better than competing, but this occasionally productive competition has taken on a more toxic and macabre character in the form of the oppression olympics, the competition for the title of “most oppressed.”
I urge you to try to understand me and learn about Islam. You’ll see then that my religion is not a political ideology. You’ll see that we are full of life and full of love.
It wasn’t until leaving the South and attending college that I discovered a history I hadn’t known existed. Learning this gave me the privilege of sight; I was able to see myself as both a lesbian and a Southerner.
