We live in a culture that tends to recognize just two genders, male and female, sometimes called a “gender binary.” Yet, non-binary identities have been recognized for millennia by cultures and societies around the world. While our culture is starting to deconstruct the gender binary, our linguistic structure reinforces the very division and discrimination that … Continue reading The Grammar of Inclusion
April 22, 1970 was the first Earth Day. Up till then Americans were ignorant about the issues of pollution and especially pesticides. Rachel Carlson’s 1962 groundbreaking book Silent Spring represented a watershed moment, as it raised public awareness and concern for living organisms, the environment and the inextricable links between pollution and public health. Led by Service … Continue reading Earth Day
Our sense of Place in the Universe has awed us since the first humans gazed into the heavens. From the regularity of common events like Day and Night to uncommon events like eclipses and comets, we have come to see ourselves as part of something bigger, so much bigger that it staggers the imagination. Led … Continue reading Eclipsed by Wonder
