I know. You might be tired of hearing me say this name. Trust me — I’m tired of saying it. (Scroll to the bottom for what we can do!) I’ve written about it here, and here, and here. I have thought about it, wrestled with it, and talked about it more than I ever wanted to. I genuinely wish the SAVE Act — and every voter suppression attempt like it — would disappear forever. Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash I’ve written about it here, and here, and here. I have thought about it,

I want to talk about a pattern we have in the U.S. I’m not the first person to point it out. It goes something like this: White people commit violence in defense of power. Then, over time, the story changes. Photo by Dani Adkins on Unsplash The people who caused the harm become the ones who were really harmed. Persecuted. Treated unfairly. Accountability becomes oppression. Consequences become cruelty. And once the story flips, support often follows. Sympathy expands. Politic

I try to stay away from the words always and never. I'm not all-knowing. There's no way I can parse out what will always or never be the case. Language matters. And here's the caveat I need to offer before we go any further — when it comes to my brown kids or my Black partner and protecting them — it's always white people who feel the most unsafe. Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash I also want to share this hope, that white folks can truly hear this and sit with it. I’m coming

It isn’t. It never was. But that’s what I was taught — and for a long time, I believed it. Photo by Matheus Viana on Unsplash For most of my life, as a white person in the U.S., I carried an assumption I didn’t even realize I had: that race belonged to other people. Black people. Brown people. Indigenous people. Race was their story to navigate. And I — a white person who wasn’t openly or actively racist — somehow imagined myself standing outside of it all. Neutral. Exempt. I

“I’m so tired of white people.” Photo by ostudio on Unsplash Another white person said this to me recently. I've said versions of it too. But every time I hear it, I hesitate. Something about this way of thinking doesn't sit right with me. I think I understand what could be underneath it. Exhaustion. Confusion. Anger. Fear. A desire to name real harm. But something important can happen when we stop talking about whiteness as the problem and start talking about people as the p

Let's start with what just happened. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash On April 21, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice — under the Trump administration — filed an 11-count criminal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Wire fraud. Bank fraud. Money laundering. The charges focus on a now-defunct program the SPLC used to place paid informants inside white supremacist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations — groups that have historically thr

Does This Photo Make You Feel Nostalgic? Screenshot of U.S. Dept. of ED post taken by the author. An old looking photograph . A classroom full of children standing at their desks, hands over their hearts, facing the American flag. All white children. A classroom that looked like it was lifted straight from 1959 — because it was. And across it, in bold white letters: “Make Education Great Again.” This was an official post from the U.S. Department of Education. I wasn't surpri

Or anywhere, really. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents patrol Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, La., Monday, March 23, 2026. (David Grunfeld/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) They stopped him before he even made it through the jetway. Our plane had just landed. I was walking toward the terminal, almost there, when I turned around and realized my partner wasn’t behind me. I doubled back — and found him. Standing completely still, two white se

And That's Just One Reason Why the SAVE Act Scares Me. Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Can I tell you about my February? Because I think it says a lot about why I keep writing about the SAVE Act. I've gotten a lot of responses to my last two posts about the SAVE Act. Some thoughtful. Some frustrated. A few that were, honestly, a little condescending. But here's what I noticed in almost all of them — people were speaking from their own experience. And they genuinely seemed to