My mom used to say… revisited
Today — her birthday and the anniversary of her death on the Jewish calendar — I will see my mom’s face in my own, and feel her words in my heart. Because those things my mom used to say still guide me today.
On Max Miller’s dinner
Believing survivors means understanding that survivors do many things to keep themselves safe — including cook dinner for their abusers.
When people are killed in service to “public safety”
If we are truly going to talk about public safety, we don’t get to cherry pick who gets counted in that public. And I cannot say the following strongly enough: Your right to be safe from being shot should not be predicated on the accident of your country of birth.
Misogyny in progressive clothing
People in lefty spaces hurt other people all the time. They hurt people who are supposed to be their collaborators
What price, all this violence?
When I started to write this over a week ago a hunger and labor strike was happening at Delaney Hall,
A reflection after Mother’s Day
I am thinking about mothers and I am thinking about their children. And I am thinking about all of the
When the government thinks abortion pills are scarier than guns
On safety in the era of Trump
It’s the guns. It’s the domestic violence.
On the minimization of domestic violence in our society
Roll Tide? Nope, Roll Trump
It’s graduation season. A time for words of inspiration offered to newly minted graduates about to embark on the
Coming soon
This is Dot Connecting, a brand new site by Ruth Zakarin that's just getting started. Things will be
