The other day, somebody mentioned that her values were important to her. I said, “Really. What are your values.” She shared them, and I was shocked. She said she valued diversity, inclusion, openness, and authenticity. I was floored because she constantly made statements that were racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, and elitist. She constantly shared her opinion about […]

Most of my life I was called a misfit. Most of the groups I so desperately wanted to join rejected me, excluded me, or ridiculed me. They said that I was weird, but I wasn’t weird. I was just different, too different, to fit into groups that demanded blind conformity. Thankfully,  I realized that my […]