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race & gender & class, or, how Trayvon Martin died for our sins ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
When I recently posted a blog concerning white privilege on my FB, a long-time friend & colleague asked, “At what point do we quit beating our chests?” Here’s my answer, and a warning: it’s long. But I did cite resources! 🙂 I first read Brent Staples a few years after his seminal essay “Black Men…
feeling and judging ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
A friend’s blog featured a quick&dirty Jung personality test (the four traits test, some folks call it). I move back & forth on it, but usually I’m about where this one put me: INFJ. A moderate Introvert (which is far more than most of my friends & colleagues would believe); strongly iNtuitive; moderately more Feeling…
tattooed women & liminal spaces ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I ‘got inked’ with my younger son when I was in Portland last month. He asked, and I was charmed. I already have one tattoo — a small Chinese character for ‘ink,’ almost unnoticeable on my inside right ankle. This one is NOT unnoticeable. Friends vary in their reactions. Some were horrified (truly — you…
my own sangha ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I don’t have a true sangha — that community of Buddhist believers who journey with you along your spiritual path. I have fellow travelers, certainly, and I’d like to think my approach to belief is eclectic enough that my ersatz sangha is pretty ecumenical. My cousin Sally, a born-Methodist who converted to Judaism for her…
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