A Little Backstory

Please bear with me as you read over this. This story will be long and complex with most likely quite a few tangential twists, turns, back-tracking and chronological breaks. Basically, it will be poorly written, at best. But, with any luck, I’ll figure out a way to bring it all around into…

A Moth to a Flame

“Of all the people I’ve worked with, they will all tell you the same thing: One, they became extremists because they wanted to belong, not because of ideology or dogma. And second, what brought them out was receiving compassion from the people they least deserved it from, when they least deserved…

Phase 1 — Counter Narratives

The election of President Barack Obama was a tumultuous time in the United States. Never before had a POC been elected to the highest…