NOTE: Almost certainly this piece will travel beyond my usual readership, so I thought it wise to add a quick preface. I am not a journalist by trade or training. I am a writer who traditionally has written long-form pieces commenting on or analyzing ...
NOTE: Almost certainly this piece will travel beyond my usual readership, so I thought it wise to add a quick preface. I am not a journalist by trade or training. I am a writer who traditionally has written long-form pieces commenting on or analyzing social issues like race and racism, and I have added writing ...
A few weeks back, a movement colleague—noted anti-racist writer and activist Tim Wise—started making videos about a young white man in Tennessee, Dalton Eatherly, who goes by the online persona of Chud the Builder. Chud apparently for weeks had been posting on X about his adventures in Nashville and other areas, where he “exercised” his ...
A white as Maine is—tied with West Virginia for first place in that regard—we are not without notable Black people. And no, I’m not talking about myself; I’m talking about those whose presence here (sometimes a form of activism in and of itself) and whose work in civil rights and related efforts made my work ...
It’s a gray, rainy day here in Maine as I write this but the energy is crackling all the same as the state and political circles grapple with the aftermath of U.S. Senate candidate (and current Maine governor) Janet Mills’s announcement less than six weeks before the primary that she is suspending her campaign for ...
Maine is a sleepy little state, mostly forgotten aside from those who vacation here and the recent influx of influencer types who have discovered the state’s robust food scene and natural wonders. Or those during the early years of the pandemic who, because of the proliferation of work-from-home situations, flocked here for space and a ...
