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Category Archive: Politics

Guest Rant: The Positive Case for Hillary Clinton

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I am privileged to have some really smart friends who often write things I wish I had said […]

Amanda Shaffer 03/11/2016 Clinton, Current Events, Politics, Religion

The Sum of Our Parts

I live in a segregated neighborhood. That may seem like an odd way to describe my corner of […]

Amanda Shaffer 20/10/2016 Clinton, Current Events, Politics

Hillary Can Join my Car Pool

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I survived watching the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The only moment that made […]

Amanda Shaffer 27/09/2016 Clinton, Current Events, Feminism, Girly Things, Politics

When words fail

I have been increasingly silent on my blog during the last year. Partially because I had a mistaken […]

Amanda Shaffer 11/07/2016 Current Events, Politics

Reposting because everyone should read this

I Fit the description… This is what I wore to work today. On my way to get a […]

Amanda Shaffer 05/12/2015 Current Events, Politics

Burning Down the House

While I was facilitating a discussion about race this week it came up that some people “didn’t want […]

Amanda Shaffer 30/04/2015 Current Events, Philosophical, Politics

Why We Still Need Women’s History Month

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As Women’s History month drifts to a close I feel like we are running in place with once […]

Amanda Shaffer 27/03/2015 Feminism, Girly Things, Mother Issues, Philosophical, Politics

The Right to Be Right

The comment was “Anyone who doesn’t think we are living in a police state is deluding themselves.” It […]

Amanda Shaffer 05/02/2015 Current Events, Politics

Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks and the Brutal Truth of Video

There is a moment in every public discussion of race where the topic is no longer the justice […]

Amanda Shaffer 08/01/2015 Current Events, Politics

Check Your Head

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The neighborhood I grew up in appears desolate and broken. Ten miles from where I live, its at […]

Amanda Shaffer 06/01/2015 bias, coaching, Politics, The Past

Now What?

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UPDATE: November 25, 2019 Much remains the same since I wrote this post back in 2014, and some […]

Amanda Shaffer 25/11/2014 Current Events, Politics

Pigs in Space

I have been writing too much for the last month to write a blog post in case that’s […]

Amanda Shaffer 20/11/2014 Current Events, Feminism, Girly Things, Politics

Abortion = Compassion

Anyone who reads this blog for more than five minutes knows I am a staunch supporter of reproductive […]

Amanda Shaffer 15/10/2014 Pages, Politics, Religion

Fact or Opinion

Over dinner the other night we had one of those twisty turny conversations that kept us at the […]

Amanda Shaffer 26/09/2014 Feminism, Girly Things, Pages, Politics

“Tell us what you really think”

There are lots of ways to shut down women when they are speaking. For me the one that […]

Amanda Shaffer 10/09/2014 Feminism, Girly Things, Philosophical, Politics

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