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Going Back to School Looks Different in Midlife

By Bill Wodhams — 2020

University started later for me than most. The opportunity wasn’t available when I was younger—too many siblings in our family, too little money. But I never stopped wondering what university would have been like, what went on behind the tall brick walls of those serious grey buildings. Twenty-plus years later, and I finally had the chance to find out.

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Protecting Your Mental Health and Well-Being While Speaking Out

Ongoing concern about your cause and your community, discrimination because of your gender, race, age or one of your other identities, challenges balancing your advocacy with your academic and personal commitments and many other aspects of speaking out can take a toll on your mental health and...

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Op-Ed: Why Storytelling is an Important Tool for Social Change

Providing ways for people to share their perspectives through storytelling initiatives can contribute to bigger changes in society and even help reduce prejudice.

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Our Activism Is Too Focused on Performance to Acknowledge Allies Who Aren’t ‘Vocally’ Woke

We tend to “believe” in the woke-ness that is “performed” for us. “The more vocal you are, the more confident you appear. And because you appear more confident, you seem to have more influence on other people, who believe you’ll be great at practicing what you claim too,” she says.

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What Motivates Our Activism? My Activism?

An everyday, add-on benefit of fighting injustice is building trust in ourselves, exercising our moral fiber, and strengthening our moral muscles for the next decision point.

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Why Activism Is Natural for Young People

Don't underestimate young people's power to change the world.

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The Subtle Power of Nonviolent Activism

Violent responses to social justice protests require protesters to be even more focused on peaceful tactics.

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Embodiment as Self-Care in Activist Movements

Embodied practice creates the potential for a unifying perspective and it can inspire new ways for activists to participate in community outreach, sisterhood, and self-care.

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How Can Activism Be Self-Care?

I learned very early that to survive in this broken world there is a never-ending need to “support, nurture, and protect what we hold dear” to keep it from being damaged, hurt, or destroyed ……which also includes myself.

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How Exclusion From the Military Strengthened Gay Identity in America

Armed forces long prohibited gay people from service – but that only encouraged their communities and cause.

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Gay War Veteran Speaks Out for Equal Rights in Ukraine’s Military

Viktor Pylypenko has become a role model for dozens of LGBT+ Ukrainian war veterans and their supporters since he organised their participation in Kyiv’s largest ever gay pride march.

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