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Education 575

25Oct 2024January 24, 2025

In the future, I hope to develop intervention policies aimed at reducing social inequality, dismantling barriers, and enhancing access to early educational opportunities. I firmly believe that intervening at the earliest stages is often underestimated and undervalued. Yet, the formative Read More …

April GReflectionsclass, education, race, unequalLeave a comment

Poem 910.2

22Oct 2024October 22, 2024

You are more than what you allowed yourself to beYou can become more than what others told you to beYou have grit, strength, kindness, and wisdomYou are bone and bloodStardust and cosmosYou are humanAnd you are beautifulAllow yourself to be Read More …

LSPoemsgender, race, womenLeave a comment

Poem 910

22Oct 2024October 22, 2024

America is often called a “melting pot of cultures,”A swirling pool of color and substanceAn overwhelming sea of hot white, dominating and swiftThe colors may mix but the blinding white remains constantThey fight and fight, bubbling up and spilling outAs Read More …

LSPoemsgender, race, womenLeave a comment

Free be poem 808

22Oct 2024

What is it to be a woman?To be a woman is to be askedWhen will you have children?When will you get married?To be a woman is to be toldDon’t show your shouldersDon’t be too bossyDon’t be too loudTo be a Read More …

Anonymous 808Poemsgender, race, womenLeave a comment

Poem 575

18Oct 2024December 19, 2024

Resistance is justified when people are occupied,You often hear this line,To describe genocide,It would have been bantered in the 40s,When the lives of our Jewish Brothers and Sisters,Were stolen. Resistance is justified when people are occupied,Unless they are of Arab-descent,Or Read More …

April GPoemsnation/nationality/ethnicity, race, religionLeave a comment

Poem 246

18Oct 2024October 18, 2024

My race hold privilege, although many will denyRacist comments are made with no consequences, anything fliesSomeone should call them out, but no one wants to be that guyI hope that a more equal society will blossom, as time passes us Read More …

AmeliaPoemsraceLeave a comment

Family 290

08Oct 2024October 8, 2024

I have no idea where I fit! My dad owns a really successful business, and so did my mom, but we weren’t overly rich and we didn’t have a mansion, but we had a nice house with a big backyard Read More …

Anonymous 290Reflectionseducation, family, gender, raceLeave a comment

Social Mobility 409

29Sep 2024September 29, 2024

I think that I have. My parents definitely had a different experience than I do now. My parents are both African American and over the age of 65. They grew up in a decent neighborhood in different sides of Detroit. Read More …

Brittany PeeteReflectionsfamily, raceLeave a comment

Social Mobility 884

26Sep 2024September 26, 2024

My father grew up in a small, conservative town in Wisconsin where ignorance was frequented. His parents were not college-educated, nor did they have much exposure to the world around them. My dad was gifted and hyper-independent as a child. Read More …

Nora StaszewskiReflectionsclass, gender, interactions, race, unequalLeave a comment

Other Inequalities 606

25Sep 2024September 25, 2024

If there is one thing about social inequality that I wish I could write about, I would cheat and say two things, which are colorblindness and affirmative action. The reasons why I group these two concepts together is because I Read More …

Anonymous 606Reflectionsother, race, unequal

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