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By Gale Renee Walden When my daughter Zella was two, she stuck a small American flag with a shiny gold point up through the palate of her mouth and into her nose. It was a summer evening. We were home alone, in the basement. I was doing laundry; she...

This past summer I visited a group of teenage boys at a summer camp and gave them some sobering news: If you follow the trend in society, you’re going to end up being sloths and underachievers. And women are going to leave you in their vapor trails....

When I tell other activists in the San Francisco Bay Area that I was a member of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC or PF) in the 1970s and 1980s,1 they often say, “Oh yeah, you’re the people who always had child care at your events.” People who...

Michael Sedano Invisibility, erasure, exclusion, subversion Today’s La Bloga-Tuesday marks two important occasions, one of immense joy, another of bitter frustration, yet… The first brings the joy of the month’s second La Bloga On-line Floricanto...

Emily Onofrio // Free Willy Soundtrack I’m sure the orchestral pieces are as majestic as the whale himself, but I only remember listening to two songs on this entire album– track one, a Michael Jackson original, and track two, “Keep...