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The hardest thing about being an ‘other’ in a society is that sometimes we lack the language to even explain what is going on. Science has taught us that if we are able to put a name on something we face, our brain can literally reorder itself to understand a once nameless blob of a… Read the full article »

I’m sure they didn’t mean to. You should try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. They were just trying to help. These phrases can often make it seem like you are the bad guy when it comes to holding people accountable for what they do. More and more it seems like those in… Read the full article »

For most of my twenties, I fell into a lie. Most people, I am told, who find themselves ‘othered’ in our society find themselves tied up in this lie in one way or another. It keeps extraordinary people tied into fear, and promises an escape by pointing to a jail cell. The lie? That Equality… Read the full article »

We live in a world of he said / she said, where people will do anything to avoid taking responsibility for their actions and might make promises they don’t really intend to keep. Short of wearing a body camera, [something I’m not above, but has been known to wreck an outfit] creating a paper trail… Read the full article »

“That was one battle we had to fight.” My heart always sinks a bit when I hear this phrase. Growing up I usually heard it from the mothers of children with disabilities, the subtext being that there was a string of fights to simply get their children what most kids were entitled to simply by… Read the full article »

Let’s say you’re a new hire at a bank. Things are going great, on the whole they seem to like you. There’s just one seem that seems a little bit ‘off.’ Whenever there’s a tea break during a meeting you wind up making the tea. For everyone. On the surface this seems fine. You’re the… Read the full article »