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Part of being a Natural Born Rebel is having hard conversations. Hard conversations about hot topics with people who don’t agree with...

Everything is an everyday experience. Movements simply have the momentum of the masses behind a unified experience. Take M.A.D.D....

Social justice and political action feel like really, really big things. Like so big, I am forced to eat a pint of ice cream and binge...

I have a craving…a deep desire…a carnal need… Brené Brown once said, “There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”...

About a month ago I was in Washington DC at the American Women’s Party Conference. When I was there I got to connect with some of the...

It is Friday, I just did my FB live. It was awesome. I said some stuff. Threw out a few big things. Finished it up and was like wow…you...

It is a compulsion. A calling. A drive. The need to change the world for the better. The impulse to improve the community for...

This morning a friend of mine posted this poem on Instagram: This poem resonated with me so deeply for a number of reasons. One is that I...

I grew up Mormonish (LDS lite) in Utah. My relationship with God and Christianity was complicated to say the least. As a bisexual...

Yesterday we talked about the social construction of HIV in my social justice class. I showed my class videos about gay cancer, Ryan...

I am deeply committed to working for justice in an authentic and charitable way. This means I am going to fuck shit up a lot in the eyes...

12/12/17 was a historic day in Portland, Oregon. I got to meet one of my heroes Hillary Clinton…again. I met her 10 years ago during her...

Last night I broke my cardinal rule. I picked a fight with a total stranger on Facebook. It made me cry all night and all morning. It...

I am grateful for activists. I receive lots of really incredible emails on a pretty regular basis. This week I received some remarkable...

Yesterday a student at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work filed suit against a former professor of mine because of the...

This week we had a mass shooting. Again. I thought to myself, “what can I say about this to my followers?” Then I thought, wait a minute,...

Today is the last class that I am teaching at the California State University, San Bernadino School of Social Work. I dedicate this blog...

December 2, 2015 I am supposed to be coding my data for my qualifying exam right now but instead I am texting my husband to tell him...

There is a fierceness to my brilliance, to my activism, to my action. There is a fierceness behind this need to drive change, to inspire...

Yesterday the 44th President of the United States gave his inaugural speech while I was driving down I-5 with our 10 and 2 year old.  At...