Category: Social Issues
Speak Truth to Power: Pro-Refugee Protesting Experience
Recently, my wife and I attended a protest to express our opposition to President Trump’s executive order to ban refugees from the seven Muslim-majority countries on the list it contained. The prote... Read More
Learning to Listen All Over Again
It is an easy thing to preach to the choir. They agree with you, affirm your hatred, anger, and even your ostracizing of the “fools” on the other side of the equation. This is politics right: ... Read More
Because Yes Means Yes
This piece was written by Jaimie Dingus, one of the 2016-2017 Boston Bridge Fellows. When I was eight years old my family took a vacation to France over Christmas to visit my mom’s brother, a Foreig... Read More
Islamophobia: An Attack on American Democracy
This is a guest post written by Junaid S. Ahmad. In the wake of President Trump’s executive order banning the entry of Muslims from seven different Muslim majority countries, the country has wit... Read More
Art for the Resistance
I haven’t been able to write lately. Not for State of Formation, not poetry, not really anything except for “WTF” over and over again on Facebook as new horrors emerge in the headlines from the ... Read More
Community Engaged Scholars: Balancing Scholarship and Activism
The University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race and Gender recently held a workshop titled, “Community Engaged scholars: Balancing Scholarship and Activism.” As a graduate student, academic... Read More
So Long, Farewell: Reflecting on the End of the Obama Administration in Light of this Week’s Parsha, Vayechi
This week’s parsha, Vayechi (Gen. 47:28-50:26), is a parsha of endings. The patriarch Jacob/Israel, having reached the ripe old age of 147 years, recognizes that the time has come for him to die. He... Read More
Moving Towards the Building of a Beloved Community
There is so much that could be said of this post election nightmare and it’s ensuing trauma. Like 9/11 and the 2008 economic recession, the 2016 elections will be a marker in our history of collecti... Read More