Category: Equality
Equality
In honor of Juneteenth, Chris Dupuy writes about Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color line in 1947, and how we still have a long way to go to overcome inequality.
January 6 insurrectionists see almost no penalties for terrorizing Congress and damaging the Capitol. Cozcacuauhtli faces years of incarceration for Danza Azteca in front of an ICE building.
Weeks preceding National Day of Mourning brought even more examples, to pile on top of myriad others, of the inequity on which this country was built.
While Brittney Poolaw made headlines after she was arrested for suffering a miscarriage, there are 1,199 just like her.
An interview with writer Dylan Krieger about the evolution of her poetry in tandem with sex work through OnlyFans as a natural extension of her overall body of work.
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.
