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Growing Up White

Posted on February 15, 2016February 14, 2016 by Abigail Clauhs

It’s funny how racial identity works. Especially whiteness. Especially when you’re taught, implicitly and overwhelmingly, that white is the norm. It’s funny how it’s not until you’re older�... Read More

Statues Will Never Be Enough

Posted on November 30, 2015November 29, 2015 by Abigail Clauhs

It was the summer of 2012. I was nineteen years old, working as an intern in Washington, DC—that swamp of politics, and humidity, and the slow-moving Potomac. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial ha... Read More

Interfaith Abroad, Part 2: Privilege, Context, and Coming Home

Posted on October 1, 2015September 30, 2015 by Laura Brekke

Read Part I here. Travel gives you space to see new things, and learn to appreciate all the familiar things you take for granted. Travel grants the traveler a suspension of their own reality, a limina... Read More

Arab Like Me: Rachel Dolezal and My Anxious Jewish Mask

Posted on July 30, 2015July 29, 2015 by Ilona Gerbakher

Am I the Jewish Rachel Dolezal? I was sitting in my East Jerusalem apartment in a Moroccan djellaba, Abdel Halim Hafez warbling from the stereo, sipping mint tea and reading a New Yorker article about... Read More

On the intersection of race and religion

Posted on October 9, 2013October 9, 2013 by Elizabeth Durant

As a white person who is passionate about dismantling racism, I seek to notice the power and privileges that my pale skin affords me, as well as the many blind spots and biases it brings. My master’... Read More