How Do We Talk About Imprisoned Asylum Seekers in the US?
Internment camps and concentration camps When “concentration camp” started to be used to describe the imprisonment of asylum seekers at the southern …
Could you save lives by changing the words you use?
A Here and Now episode interviewed Michael Botticelli about his quest to change the language used regarding people with substance use disorder. He …
Talking across religious divides
An exchange student from Brown University in Rhode Island found that her semester in Amsterdam required fewer adaptations for cultural difference than …
National PTSD Awareness Day
June 27th is National PTSD Awareness Day. I’ve written about PTSD before. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder affects our armed servicepeople who experience …
What you can learn about Resistance from one immigrant woman
Who is taking the brunt of verbal and physical assault since the current President’s election? Immigrant women. According to the New York …