Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
ACLR 005: Understanding the Journey of An Asylum Seeker with Mpagi Kirumira
Mpagi Kirumira’s story unfolds in this interview, revealing insights and busting assumptions that many of us have about what it’s like to try to save your life by escaping to the United States. The roles of curiosity and adventure are clear as we peek inside the life of this Ugandan human rights activist and his journey to becoming an asylum seeker in the US.
Read MoreWorld History Starts Here
Imagine you have a pushpin. It is sharp and magical. Imagine you can count on your memory of yesterday being the one true memory. Extend your crystal clear memory all the way back to the beginning of time so that your scroll of history is the one true and accurate depiction. Now call up the magic of your pushpin and succinctly prink the moment in history from which you want all land ownership to be determined. Start there.
That pushpin gave you a lot of power. Beware of
Read MorePray the Gay Away: Right to Choose?
In my Year of Living Curiously experiment, a recent event provided the biggest challenge to elevating curiosity ahead of criticism.
My calendar was blocked out for the Degenerate Flame-Off weekend. It’s the coolest annual event for the glass pipe industry where all the great glass artists from around the country come to compete. With my crazy marijuana-related projects chugging along, I simple had to be there. Plus, it was guaranteed to be hot, sexy and sharp.
That same weekend I was asked to attend a protest for the national conference of Restored Hope Network, a reparative/gay-conversion/deal with homosexuality/pray-the-gay-away event. I was torn, but then I thought,
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