I live in a town that experienced a college campus shooting. In 2008, five NIU students were killed, plus the gunman. I moved here from a city that experienced the trauma of Pan Am flight 103, carrying thirty five Syracuse University students home from a semester abroad, exploding over Lockerbie, Scotland. All two hundred and […]
Archive for October, 2015
Zapped Through Our Feet
Posted: 12th October 2015 by admin in BlogTags: animal experimentation, bomb threats, fear, hope, learned helplessness, resilience, school shooting
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Reflections on a Revolution
Posted: 4th October 2015 by admin in BlogTags: #LGBT youth, challenges, HIV, LGBT history, life changes, PrEP, revolution
Seventeen years ago on the first Saturday in October, I sat in a park in Naperville, shivering and uncomfortable, dressed too lightly for how the temps dropped after the sun went down. I was at a Take Back the Night rally for domestic violence awareness, one of the first assignments of my brand new job […]