Tag: segregation

• Mental Health Athletes

  I greatly appreciate writers who share ideas for attracting readers, for example, at Twitter: #amwriting #amreading; and at Google+: the Saturday Scenes and Writers Discussion Group communities. Here are thoughts that I would like more authors to consider when sharing what they write about mental illness. I often perceive an “us and them” way of thinking, for example…

  Grace Buchanan Audiobooks

  February 18, 2015

  Creativity, Social Justice

  bipolar disorder, depression, discrimination, mental health, mental illness, privilege, respect, segregation, write

• Police Brutality and Fear

  A conversation is taking place at Dungeon Prompts regarding whether, and how, race colors our perceptions of police brutality. My perception of police brutality is colored by my personal experiences, which are colored by my racial status. The Context A couple of weeks ago, Michael Brown — an unarmed black young man — was shot…

  Grace Buchanan Audiobooks

  August 23, 2014

  Social Justice

  discrimination, DungeonPrompts, privilege, respect, segregation, self-talk

• 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