One only negotiates a contract if one cares whether or not anyone else signs it. Otherwise, one writes the contract to meet specific needs and others have the option of signing. Or not.
While on bail, a Christian residential program gave Jarryd Hayne the benefit of the doubt. His fellow students, mostly women, were not afforded the same consideration.
Don Dunstan is famous for decriminalizing homosexuality in South Australia in 1975, the first state in Australia to do so. Wherever Dunstan saw inequality, he refused to accept it.
Police violence hasn’t abated despite more and more departments requiring body cameras and the Internet filled with videos of egregious police conduct.
Lately, I’ve been musing on what a perfect place would look like, and how far away from it we truly are.
The media tends to render Asian Americans as either “perpetual foreigner” or “model minority” – both stereotypes that have been levied in tandem against immigrants from Asia since the 1830s.
Trans Day of Visibility, celebrated March 31, is a day to honor the trans community and counter transphobia.
This week has reinforced that the weight of memory is carried by the victim. The perpetrator can choose not to remember.
On February 10, 1971, heavily armed officers moved in on a house occupied by Black Panther activists – marking a policing trajectory toward a more militarized response to Black activism.