“They had to see us as human first.” History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. From desegregation to Christian nationalism, from Kindred to Survivor, the same struggle echoes: Who gets to decide who is fully human? This is about forced transitions—through time, through power, through who belongs and who is excluded. It’s about the past bleeding into the present and the danger of believing we’ve moved beyond it.
Category: What I’m Reading
Moral Foundations Analysis: Evaluating Ideological Bias and AI Influence
Are the words we read—and the AI we use—shaping our moral views? This blog breaks down how rhetoric and AI systems frame moral values like care, fairness, authority, and liberty. Use these two powerful prompts to analyze speeches, news, and AI responses for hidden biases and ideological leanings.
The New Divide: AI, Critical Thinking, and the Future of the Vulnerable
Generative AI is creating a divide—those who understand how to shape it and those who will be shaped by it. AI literacy is becoming as essential as reading and writing, yet many people, especially those with disabilities or limited access, aren’t being taught how to use it effectively. In Patternmaster, Octavia Butler imagined a world where power was determined by access to a mental network—the Pattern—while others, the mutes, were left vulnerable. The parallels to our world are striking. AI has the potential to be an equalizing force, but only if we explicitly teach people how to engage with it. Without intervention, the divide will grow, and those without AI fluency won’t even realize they’ve lost control of the wheel.
Lilith, Eve, and the Girls Who Went First: Rebellion, Obedience, and the Cost of Change
For centuries, women have been told to choose: obedience or exile, silence or survival. Lilith was cast out for refusing to submit. Eve was punished for seeking knowledge. Gay Few and Vanessa Stutten, like so many young Black girls sent to desegregate schools, were expected to endure racism quietly to prove they belonged. History tells us to wait, to comply, to not push too hard. But real change has never come from waiting. It comes from reclaiming the stories, refusing to shrink, and demanding more. We are not here to be silent. We are here to rewrite the rules.
From Carl Jung to Oral History: The Research Project We Never Saw Coming
We thought we were studying psychology. Then we started listening. What began as a class on Jung’s Red Book became an oral history project that challenged everything we thought we knew. It forced us to rethink assumptions, listen differently, and confront the gap between history and memory. We didn’t just learn—we changed.
A Week in Two Worlds
Excerpt from A Week in Two Worlds: Stepping Into the Snow Globe The rain pattered softly against the RV windows, a steady rhythm that might have been soothing if I weren’t somewhere else entirely. I was supposed to be here—wrapped in a blanket, book in my lap, sipping tea and watching the water at Florence Marina State Park. But instead, I was inside a snow globe, watching cadets march in formation, sponsors glide across a ballroom floor, the world inside the glass shimmering with tradition and elegance. I had always seen Gordon that way—beautiful, untouchable, a place suspended in time. And in some ways, I had wanted to be there. To be a sponsor, to twirl in an evening gown at the Military Ball, to be part of the story that had been so carefully preserved. But when I shook the snow globe, another story appeared. A cafeteria where Black students had to strategize just to find a place to sit. A fundraiser where students were auctioned off, until someone finally turned the game on itself. A girl, just 14, stepping onto campus for the first time and realizing that the magic in the snow globe wasn’t meant for her. This week, I lived in two places at once—the quiet isolation of the RV and the noisy, living memories of Gordon in the 1960s. One was supposed to be an escape. The other, a confrontation with history. And in the end, I know which one I actually visited.
Stress is a Process
“People are disturbed not by a thing, but by their perception of a thing.” — Epictetus Stress is a process. Unfortunately, many of us don't know how that process works in our own lives, much less where and how to intervene in order to change the outcome of the process. Did you know that about … Continue reading Stress is a Process