"I'm pretty sure our culture is moving in this direction at this point, and I'm willing to claim it."
How I did it: Look around us! The Right is crumbling, the Left is ascending. Yay progressive politics. Also, I changed the way I think about and talk about things. Rather than letting the Right and the media define my reality I'm reading progressive history and reclaiming the heritage of the progressive Left.
Lessons & tips: We can all recapture this word right now. There's no one end point we can reach where we'll say, "ah, we've arrived, everything's okay now." We can simply change the way we speak, ourselves, and encourage that way of speaking in our communities. If we can all speak the truth about our families, and use these words with the confidence that we're just as entitled to use them as the Right is, if not drastically more so, then we've attained our goal.
Nov 04, 2008, 05:29AM PST
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