Tag: equity

• He Dresses, She Slacks: Transgender Sex Roles

  I notice when people complain about weak sex roles. “Women should be women, and men should be men. “If we didn’t have rigid, inappropriate sex roles, might we all be “people” instead of “male” and “female”? Last month, the highest court in Australia decided to recognize some people as being of a non-specific sex. If…

  Grace Buchanan Audiobooks

  May 2, 2014

  Social Justice

  dignity, discrimination, diversity, equity, feminism, gender, respect, sex roles, tradition, transgender

• Petition: Claire O’Brien

  When I first heard about Claire’s story, I thought that it was an issue of concealing a witness to shelter him or her from being heard in court. I thought that the reporter was claiming to have otherwise disputable information, and stated that it came from a credible, though anonymous, source. I thought that the…

  Grace Buchanan Audiobooks

  April 20, 2014

  Social Justice

  Claire O’Brien, discrimination, economic disparity, equity, privilege, respect

• Lincoln to King: the next Great Emancipator

  A river of emotion swells in me as a little-girl version of my voice overflows, singing with the marchers who are on their way to the Lincoln Memorial for a celebration of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves, and “the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.” We…

  Grace Buchanan Audiobooks

  February 11, 2014

  Social Justice

  19th century, discrimination, economic disparity, equity, freedom, history, Martin Luther King Jr, privilege, segregation

• Thanksgiving Days

  When I was in college, each time that I drove on the interstate highway past a certain Indian reservation, I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t see it. I repeatedly looked at maps to verify that I was looking in the right place. I could not see teepees anywhere. Watercolor painting by Karl Bodmer 1832-1834 This…

  Grace Buchanan Audiobooks

  November 28, 2013

  Customs, Social Justice

  agriculture, discrimination, equity, Haudenosaunee, history, Indians, indigenous, most popular, Onondaga, respect, seasons, tradition, treaties