All day on Thursday, April 20, 2017, LGBTQIA organizations across the US will participate in an annual 24-hour philanthropy campaign called Give OUT Day. This giving event is hosted by the Horizons Foundation, and is now in its fourth year. It allows the nonprofits that are part of the LGBTQIA movement to showcase their work, […]
We’ve been here before
I grew up hearing about the civil rights era lunch counter sit-ins. It took me a while to understand that they were about much more than food. In Greensboro, NC, in 1960, four Black students sat down at a Whites-only counter in a Woolworths store and refused to move until served. They sat down at […]
Recovering from Rejection
Leading from outside of the org chart, or with limited social privileges is a constant apprenticeship in leveraging the seasons for every purpose. We watch for the time when new things can be born and when old things must die. We guard the fields of our organizations, communities, and societies for the right time to plant new patterns and the […]
About That: Gatekeeping In Mixed Company
About That posts feature responses to current events in 280 characters or fewer. Last week’s religious advertising flap Evangelicals for Marriage Equality: The Full-Page Advertisement That Wasn’t [via Hemant Mehta] (9/8) Religious News Service: Was Christianity Today Justified in Rejecting This Controversial Ad? (9/12) 9/18 Update: Evangelicals for Marriage Equality: A Response To Our Critics (9/18) About That It’s facile to […]