“Darnell, I don’t know if I can do this.” It was July 13. The Zimmerman verdict had just been read. Not guilty. My heart, body,...
A workshop was held at the University of Arizona on September 7, 2013, called “LoveMaps for Middle School: Nurturing Digital Activism for Social Justice.” This...
By Karima Amin It has taken me a long time to say those words and really mean them. At age 66, loving ME is a...
By Roberto E. Alejandro In a scene from 1952’s High Noon, Gary Cooper’s Marshal Kane enters the town parish in the hopes of recruiting deputies...
By Linh Hua In July 2008, my last formal teacher was brutally murdered. The formulation of that sentence—the recognition of that particular loss—only just recently...
By Laura Phelps If you’re an English language teacher, like me, you’ll be familiar with the concept of adjacency pairs. These are call-and-response phrases that...
By Rev. Earle J. Fisher Sadly, it seems that love has become synonymous with cheap and self-centered lust. Radical individualism has overridden communal and corporate compassion....
By Rashida Harrison To be a feminist, for me, is a work of love. However, it was not until I wrote my dissertation, drawing on...
By Nicole Burres of SMASH Patriarchy and Rape Culture Nicole Burres, a member of SMASH Patriarchy and Rape Culture, asked a series of people about...
By Stacey Balkun Love note for Marianne Moore, 1887-1972, American modernist poet and baseball fan. Marianne—I’m running out of time. I’m reading you again, marking...
By Andre E. Johnson The most radical love is self-love. In fact, I suggest that in order to love others, one must be able to...
By Claire Askew for Steve I almost can’t help it. Sometimes it just comes fizzing up through me — the white noise of lightning rattling...
By Stephanie Gilmore -with mil gracias to Cherríe Moraga To keep back the cold I...
By Stacey Balkun . ..Love note for Sally Ride, 1951-2012, American physicist and astronaut ..who joined NASA at age 32 and became the first American woman...
By Katrina Otuonye Like Letters …..I used to have dreams where I would read anonymous letters sent to my house. …..“I do not love you,”...
By Anwar Uhuru Two years ago at a conference I met a man who changed my life. We were both in the audience and the panel...
By Marcie Bianco and J.T. Roane TFW Collective Member, Darnell L. Moore, delivered a talk titled, “What Freedom Feels Like: On love, empathy and pleasure in the...
By Aaron Talley In this era of deep political polarization and the seclusion offered by social media, one of the biggest hindrances to social change is...