Tag: Themselves

A couple weeks ago, a Desi comrade drew my attention to this amazing protest song, dating back to the anticolonial struggle against the British and written by the Hindi/Urdu lyricist Shailendra. I’m putting this together to make it accessible to a wider English-speaking audience, Desi or not. ...

I indulged in similar procedures quite a few times. I performed diverse forms of meditation and used various psychotropic substances in different sets and settings. While most of the people I interact with have little to no understanding whatsoever of where and why those practices emerged (and I do ...

First, insofar as race is a social construct (which it is), it’s useful to examine how that construct was built, and how it has two sides (at least). The category of “black people” could not exist without a complementary, equally made-up category of “white people” to st...

Every so often a member of the White Adoptive Parent Blog Industrial Complex gets too far out over their skis when writing about race. The pieces tend to be born out of intense parental love, but go awry when the authors either insert themselves into the center of the struggle for racial justice ins...

Ever since Trump pledged to build a wall and have “Mexico pay for it,” I’ve always wondered what would happen if Democrats adopted tougher language on the border. Now, it looks like I’m finally getting my answer. Whether or not it’s as big of a problem as people thin...

Let me start by making it clear that this article is not about gun control in America. You, lovely people in the States, can argue all you like about Second Amendment rights in your own time. I’ve got other things on my mind just now. I’m a firm believer in the right of every man and ...

Across the globe a number of international cities refer to themselves as the “San Francisco of [insert country name].” And I can’t say that I blame them, given the quality of life, the overall awesomeness and the vanity of our fair city (even if our affordable housing situation lea...

So, you landed the #dreamjob and are “living your best life!” in the professional world. Congrats! But now that you want to work on climbing that corporate ladder, you may be afraid that you’ll have to straighten up and get rid of all the stuff that shows off your totally unique...