It was okay to be gay in the Marine Cooks and Stewards. And in the 1940s, MCS integrated to become one of the most progressive unions in the United States.
Walls and fences at national borders enforce inequality, racial divides, and climate catastrophe. But most of them began as invisible lines in the sand.
Sonora Jha was new to America and on her own with a 6-year-old when she was injured in a car accident. But she found a new community willing to help out鈥攚ith songs, play dates, and kimbap.
The human 鈥渇ight or flight鈥 response gives demagogues like Trump a tool for political manipulation. But we could replace oppression with a system of care.