“Born Female: Growing into Feminism and Movement Building”

I think this will be a very interesting event:
Grace Lee Boggs will speak on “Born Female: Growing into Feminism and Movement Building” on March 1, 12:00 pm, in Bernath Auditorium,
Undergraduate Library, Wayne State University.
Ms. Boggs, co-founder of the Beloved Communities Initiative, is an activist, writer and speaker who lives in Detroit. Her sixty-five [...]

Support the Creation of a Detroit Land Bank

Received from the Detroit Garden Resource Project’s listserve:
The Coalition for a Detroit Land Bank has been working very hard to create a land bank in Detroit. A land bank would serve as a tool to address vacant land issues and help preserve community gardens and greenspace in our city. It would help to ensure [...]

Thoughts on Community and Isolation

I’ve been dealing with intense feelings of loneliness lately. A large part of that is because my partner is 3,000 miles away and there has been static between us that is bigger than just the miles. But it goes deeper than that, and is the extreme end of a feeling that has been familiar for [...]

Fought in a War

I’ve been thinking a lot about the war in Iraq.
There was an anti-war demonstration in DC on the 24th of January. United for Peace and Justice reported that 500,000 showed up; I was not one of them. In fact, I didn’t even know about the march until after it happened. I [...]

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