Black Girl in Maine - 5 new articles

For the better part of the last year (and longer, actually), as the country has navigated the turbulent waters of the Trump administration and the weak and ineffectual Congress and Supreme Court, our attention has been focused on the U.S. Senate races as a salve to save us from the chaos. Yet, while changing the ...

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• Weirdo or “frozen water” man? A strange encounter
• The inequity of cruelty in unspeakable times
• A life taken by cruelty and why we can’t turn away

 

American politics in recent years has become unserious entertainment with very serious and life-changing consequences. Something broke when the country elected its first Black president in 2008, and it has never been put back together. Perhaps it’s because white Americans did the lazy work of assuming that a Black president meant that our nation’s race ...

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The post Vote like your life depends on it and why I am supporting Troy Jackson appeared first on Shay Stewart-Bouley.

      

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• Hope, helpers and ice cream sandwiches: In a world gone topsy-turvy, what we CAN do
• Two weeks later: Maine and the musings of an organizer
• Self-care during the chaos: Selfish or life affirming?

 

I had a bizarre exchange today that, in more normal and simpler times, I would’ve ranked a nothing-burger—a weird white guy being weird. However, we are living in the era of frozen water agents in our communities across the country and in Maine, they are still here daily, terrorizing and kidnapping people. But let me ...

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The post Weirdo or “frozen water” man? A strange encounter appeared first on Shay Stewart-Bouley.

      

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• Crunch time: A chat with Hannah Pingree and a need for a blue wave
• The inequity of cruelty in unspeakable times
• A life taken by cruelty and why we can’t turn away

 

Help Now, Feedback Later The GOTV countdown is on and like it or not, Maine is important. There are so many feels about election season and we all deserve to give our input into making it better for 2028 but for today, there is genuine importance in getting Dems elected as a gateway to a ...

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• Action time! All hands on deck
• Critique and activism: People getting prickly about No Kings
• Time to step up: No hungry people on our watch

 

As fuel and grocery prices soar and the chatter of impending shortages across the country grow louder, most Americans find themselves in what increasingly feels like a downward economic and mental spiral. A spiral that has been facilitated by the Trump administration’s inane policies. A spiral that almost certainly will only intensify as more of ...

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The post The inequity of cruelty in unspeakable times appeared first on Shay Stewart-Bouley.

      

Related Stories

• Crunch time: A chat with Hannah Pingree and a need for a blue wave
• Weirdo or “frozen water” man? A strange encounter
• A life taken by cruelty and why we can’t turn away