Grief & Coping / 30 Jun 2020
What Kids Can Teach Us About Being Adaptable During Covid
Some tips to help you and your kids become more adaptable.
Art & Culture / 29 Jun 2020
Queens Of Color: Role Models For A Troubled Time
My daughters and I flop into our seats and get ready to watch Our Weekly Show. It’s one of the most enjoyable TV series of which I’ve ever been a devoted fan. Each episode brings glamour and energetic performances, rivalries and alliances, humor and pathos. It even has a follow-up show with behind-the-scenes material. It’s RuPaul’s Drag Race, either a regular season or an All-Stars season, and it’s a heady combination of fashion, performing arts, jokes both silly and shady, biting competition and oversized personalities. We love this show, hosted by the internationally known drag personality RuPaul Charles, and during the week we check out the Instagram accounts of the show and of individual cast members, and occasionally watch online spinoff shows featuring a few of the most famous queens. My girls have even attended the New York City DragCon a few times. We thrill to the lip-sync competitions, the weekly runways, the Mini and Maxi challenges. We critique the outfits, makeup and accessories of the queens. We cheer for “death drops” and splits, cartwheels, and other extreme gymnastic routines. We clap for dance moves done in high heels, and laugh (or cringe) at comedy sketches and parodies. We get misty-eyed along with the queens who discuss challenges and struggles they have faced because they are gay and effeminate, and how they dealt with bullying, families who disagree with their lifestyles, and other problems. We are hooked on watching a show about LGBTQ+ people who are expressing themselves, carving niches for themselves in the entertainment world, and dealing with the joys and sorrows of being “different” from much of mainstream society. Going even further, many of the drag queens during these twelve regular seasons and five All-Star seasons have been QOC, Queens of Color. There have been many Black and…
Building New Identities / 25 Jun 2020
Lemonade From Lemons: Diversity And Inclusion In The Terrible ’20s
One of the most powerful changes to come from this era is the abrupt dismantling of the wall between our work and home lives.
News & Politics / 17 Jun 2020
Why Trump’s Disrespect Of Juneteenth Matters
Why does the president of the United States need his “African American friends and supporters” to highlight the sensitivity of the rally’s date and location?
News & Politics, Wisdom Warehouse |
August 31, 2013
Why America Should Celebrate Both Its Secularist and Its Religious Roots
As the old saying goes, what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.? And now people entering the Bradford County Courthouse in Starke, FL will be able to have a gander at both a monument featuring the Ten Commandments and another one which will feature quotes celebrating secularism as well.? And why not? Having lost the battle to have the original monument to the Ten Commandments removed, the national organization, American Atheists, has decided that it will simply erect an additional monument – one which celebrates its animating ideology.? The......
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Spirituality & Faith, Wisdom Warehouse |
August 31, 2013
Getting the Most Out of Christmas When You’re Not Christian
Rabbi Brad Hirschfield shares with Rev. Welton Gaddy his experience navigating Christmas while being Jewish in America and his thoughts on a deeper shared sense of purpose this time of year. Listen here. With Rev. Welton Gaddy from State of Belief, December 22, 2012.? This content originally appeared on clal.org on December 22, 2012....
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Spirituality & Faith, Wisdom Warehouse |
August 27, 2013
Does Religion Help You Flourish in Your Life?
Michael Stock interviews Irwin Kula who speaks about religion in 21st century north America and asks the question: Does your religion help you flourish in your life? Listen here. Folk and Acoustic Music with Michael Stock, WLRN (Public Radio, Miami-Dade). This content originally appeared on clal.org on September 19, 2012....
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Listen To The Names Of The Victims First
A video where Brad Hirschfield lists the victims names in the recent Orlando shooting. Because first we need to internalize a tragedy before we jump to speak.
