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being in space
I’m pretty quiet the first time you meet me. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say (a fact you’ll figure out after we meet a few more times). I enjoy speaking in public as much as I do talking one-on-one about a
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in community
June is LGBTQIA+ Pride month for most of the united states and around of the world. Pride celebrates LGBTQIA+ people who are often marginalized and persecuted by mainstream society. For people across all our spectrums, Pride is a time of jubilee and reflection. We remind ourselves and each other that
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beyond anecdata
One of my favorite workplace neologisms is the term, “anecdata.” Depending on the day, it’s also my least favorite neologism. The word is a portmanteau of anecdote and data. It’s an observation that lacks perhaps the rigor of academia but that we know to be true anyway. In
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i made you dinner!
“Hey, you should come over for dinner,” I say in kind of an abrupt way. It’s the after-times, when the pandemic is over, but it was the first time it started to feel like the before-times. “That’d be great! What’s the occasion?” You ask. I
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coronavirus update
It’s been an unbelievably long seven weeks working the COVID-19 response. I’ve spent a lot of time working with my part of an interconnected network of partners across the state. Our response changes at least once or twice each week. We make plans, we communicate those plans,
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centering people when collecting information
I have a stable job that pays me well. I live in a nice apartment with my husband. We can afford to buy the things we need. My job pays me to provide social services to others, but it’s not likely that I will ever need those services myself.
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