INDONESIA: The Rise of Women in Politics
Big changes are taking place in Indonesia lately with the new President Joko Widodo (or as we Indonesians lovingly call him, Jokowi) taking office last month. Six days after he took office, Jokowi...
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#BlackBoysMatter Positive Images of Black Boys in Protest of Ferguson Tragedy Mocha Moms, Inc. members, many of whom are the mothers of sons, are outraged by the failure to indict Darren Wilson in the...
View ArticleAbu Dhabi Knife Attack: Death and Orientalism
“Are you okay?” The emails and Facebook queries began pouring in even before I knew what had happened. “Were you there?” One particularly dramatic friend asked if “what happened” made me think about...
View ArticleFLORIDA, USA: Racism is Not Dead…Neither is Love
Racism |ˈrāˌsizəm|noun: The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or...
View ArticleUSA: Outcasts, Refugees, and Giving Thanks
On November 26, 2015, here in the USA there was a celebration. It is called Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is celebrated by many Americans as a day when the ‘Injuns and pilgrims feasted together in...
View ArticleWORLD VOICE: Talk To A…..
In the age of cellphones and social media, it’s very easy to disconnect from people without realizing you’re doing so. How many of us create walls subconsciously, especially if it concerns people of...
View ArticleWORLD VOICE: Raising White Children When #BlackLivesMatter
The beginning, middle, and end of all conversations about race in my family of origin were that racism was bad and skin color didn’t matter. There’s a story my mother loved to tell: She was reading a...
View ArticleWORLD VOICE: No Time for Silence About Hate Crime
It happened. Again. On February 26, for the second time in a week, a Jewish cemetery was desecrated by a hate crime in the United States…this time in Philadelphia, known as the “City of Brotherly...
View ArticleMy Race is Human…and Asian
When you walk down the street, can you tell what nationality I am? Can you tell from the color of my skin that I’m American, besides being Asian? Or even more so, an Asian Jew? These questions may not...
View ArticleWhat Our Words Can Do
What do you think about when you hear I am from Israel? (Don’t worry, I am not about to get into the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. But the fact that we go there, and not usually in a good way, is kind...
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