But the terrible news is still overwhelming to me.
I am heartbroken by our collective failure to assist refugees from the conflicts in Syria, Yemen, the Central African Republic, and elsewhere. I’m disgusted by the racist and dehumanizing response to the refugee crisis that we’ve seen from governments in Europe, Canada, the United States, and Australia.
Those fleeing the civil wars in Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere are not someone else. They are not some mere Other that can dismiss as less fully human than ourselves. When they die, their blood is on our hands.
When the vulnerable and oppressed die because they are vulnerable and oppressed, the powerful are guilty. I’m proud of what Patrick Ness started this morning in the YA lit community, but let’s make this a beginning rather than imagining it as a solution.
Doing laundry for yourself is like a rite of passage most of you should earn in your teens, but the sad fact of the world is that the majority of you still have your mommies washing your clothes every holiday break til you graduate college. Whenever it happens, this is something you gotta learn and if you do it wrong, there can be some disastrous consequences for your clothing, so let’s get it right.
A group of private school girls in Wichita, Kansas have decided to #BanMirrors to promote self-love and body image. The Trinity Academy seniors took to the girls’ bathroom to plaster body-positive mantras (and Bible excerpts) all over their mirrors, which they claim is part of an effort to make younger students feel better about themselves. But not everyone is on board.
