I Will Speak Until I’m Free

Because my voice matters

Photo by James Pond on Unsplash

I was born very, very close to the bicentennial. So close that my birthday invariably involves fireworks of some kind. So close that I usually end up getting a three day holiday weekend to celebrate it.

My mom always joked that she tried to talk her body into giving birth on the 4th so that I could have a literal holiday for a birthday. But clearly…