Anti-racist scholar and activist Tim Wise came to Olympia for a two-part lecture series on February 26th, 2020. Wise’s arrival was part of a speaker series organized by Shawna Hawk of the Women of Color in Leadership Movement. It began two years prior with Dr. Joy Degruy, author of Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome, and continued the […]
Month: November 2020
Section 28; is the hateful campaign against LGBT community making a comeback in Scotland? by Jo Edwards
People fear what they don’t understand, they fear change based on things they don’t understand. With fear our logic and rationality go out the window, and we use our biases to understand and ‘rationalise’ things so our mind can process the information, this information then becomes our reality. This is never clearer than in conversations […]
Trans rights – women’s rights, inseparable by Jo Edwards
It strikes me that, even if you are anti GRA, you would surely still have enough empathy to take a minute of your day to say ‘it’s horrible people have died because of anti-trans hate and violence’ Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). A day which people within and outwith the trans and LGBTQ+ community, […]
Failure to Plan = Planning to Fail by David McClemont
I want them to look so far outside the box for threats that it generates furious letters to the Daily Mail when they find out the government is spending money on a plan for a Zombie Apocalypse. Let me take you back to the summer of 1999, Eiffel65 were number 1 in the charts, The […]