This month I reached a serious milestone. June 2019 is a month that I’ve been anticipating for quite a while. Guess what the milestone was? Drum roll please.. via GIPHY My Student Loan Debt Is Killing Me I got my student loan debt to under $10k! Now, that’s still a huge chunk of change, but […]
Month: June 2019
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Building A Rainbow Bridge To Progress
In this blog post, I interviewed Equality Virginia Executive Director James Parrish on the evolution of Pride month and what’s on the horizon of the legislative landscape for Equality Virginia. Equality Virginia is a 30-year-old legislation and policy advocacy organization that advocates on behalf of the 240,000 LGBTQIA individuals living in Virginia. LM: What is […]
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The Reason I Celebrate Juneteenth
Every 4th of July, Americans come together to celebrate the original thirteen colonies’ independence from Britain in 1776. I’ve always wondered about the first hundred or so July 4th celebrations. Were the enslaved Africans working on plantations throughout America celebrating? Did anyone see the irony of commemorating freedom while enslaving men, women, and children? Instead […]
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We Don’t Need Sham Restrictions On Abortion
It’s been a rough month for everyone who supports people’s right to control their own bodies and make reproductive choices for themselves. With conservatives passing laws in Georgia, Ohio, Alabama, and Missouri that amount to nearly complete bans on abortion in those states, people with uteruses have fewer rights than corpses when it comes to […]
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Senator Amanda Chase Got Ratioed. Again.
Poor GOP state Senator Amanda Chase is having a rough time of it on Twitter lately. It seems no matter what she tweets, the internet is there to ratio her. Not familiar with the term? Urban Dictionary helpfully defines it as “being revealed as an idiot on twitter by having a high ratio of comments […]
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Thoughts and Prayers Don’t Heal Bullet Wounds
During the past weekend, we experienced the 150th mass shooting of the year right here in Virginia. When asked about her reaction to the massacre at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center, local resident Nora Schaefer said to me, “Although people say a shooting can happen anywhere when it does happen in your city it changes […]
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Cox’s answer to gun violence prevention? Mass incarceration
Richmond, VA—Speaker Kirk Cox will do anything to avoid taking on the NRA’s lobbyists and tackling the crisis of gun violence in our communities. He will bottle up background check proposals in subcommittee. He’ll appoint a commission to examine school shootings but prohibit them from talking about gun violence. And now he’s proposing to again […]
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Progress Virginia Statement On Call For Special Session On Gun Violence
Richmond, VA—Progress Virginia, the commonwealth’s leading voice for progressive values, today responded to the call for a special session of the General Assembly to address gun violence prevention in the wake of Friday’s mass shooting in Virginia Beach. Progress Virginia issued the following statement from executive director Anna Scholl: “Year after year, we have watched […]