Tag Archives: Oprah Winfrey

To Shame or Not to Shame

A few years back I wrote a post about the fact that I hated the term “BBW” – big beautiful women.  One of the reasons I wrote it was because I knew literally no one who’d ever used the phrase, either to describe themselves or someone they cared about.  It was always something that was […]

The Language of the Unheard

A black 12-year-old boy in Cleveland is shot by police, who claimed he was brandishing a gun that lacked the distinguishing features of the toy that it was.  Video showed that the boy was not holding the gun when he was shot.  It also showed he was shot before the responding police car had even […]