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Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Every second Monday in October, Americans across the country have become acclimated to celebrate Christopher Columbus Day, commemorating the explorer commonly taught as discovering America in the 15th century.  This routine holiday has been etched in the history...

Op-Ed: Texas is Our Texas, Too

Op-Ed: Texas is Our Texas, Too

This past May, I sat in front of legislators to testify against their attempts to ban gender-affirming health care for transgender children in Texas, including my own transgender son. Despite COVID-19 and my aversion to public speaking, I traveled to Austin many times...

Black women don’t owe you a damn thing

Black women don’t owe you a damn thing

It’s been a rough couple of months for Black women in sports and I’m tired of seeing extraordinary Black women being dehumanized for choosing themselves. The world and America needs to understand supporting Black women and normalizing mental health is overdue. It all...

A further look at the ‘Eyes of Texas’

On March 9, The University of Texas at Austin’s The Eyes of Texas History Committee released a report about UT Austin’s official song, “The Eyes of Texas.”  Neither the report nor the committee could strip the song of its “Alma Mater” status, per the report....