Saturday, August 17, 2024

Charging Parents For Youth Crimes: A Troubling New Trend

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    This story in The Los Angelos Post Caught my eye this morning.  It prompted me to reflect on some issues raised by this concerning new p...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

An Open Letter To Female Youth Who Are Pregnant as a Result of a Rape

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    I want to tell any young woman who finds herself pregnant as the result of a rape that they are survivors first and foremost. The rapist...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Youth With Disabilities: They Get to Set the Tone!

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    So I have officially been on hiatus from this blog for the past year as I am currently in the process of writing a book on youth rights ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

An Open Letter to Deyjah Imani Harris

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Dearest Precious Deyjah,    It is odd that I, a stranger, have to write you this letter, but I am doing so because unfortunately, your pri...
Sunday, June 2, 2019

Organizing at the Intersections of Ageism and Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry

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   Eight years ago, I wrote a piece about the intersection of LGBTQ rights and ageism. A lot has changed since I wrote that post and in a s...
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Thursday, May 23, 2019

Book Review: Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People Edited by Alice Wong

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  I have just finished reading the anthology Resistance and Hope: Essays By Disabled People . The book's other subtitle (which I love) i...
Friday, April 12, 2019

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, "The Act," and the Problematic Assumption of Caregiver Benevolence

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   Gypsy Rose Blanchard's story is an object lesson in all of the ways that ageism, ableism, sexism, and the oppressive assumption of ca...
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