Category: Social issues

I’m a preschool teacher and mother to two sons, ages 26 and 24. I’ve experienced and seen changes in parenting up close in the communities I inhabit. For the sake of context, I shall describe such...Read More →

About twelve years ago, my sister told me about a friend who’d said he’d prefer his daughter be a “puta” (Spanish for “whore”) over his son being gay. The saddest part of hearing this was realizing that...Read More →

The meaning of race and the baggage of racism vary a great deal from country to country. In the US, the weight of racism is definitely greater than it was (and hopefully still is) in Venezuela, my country...Read More →

In general, things are neither as terrible as people fear nor as wonderful as they promise. That’s usually the case, but there are always exceptions. Could this be the exception? Such, pretty much, was...Read More →