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Two steps forward

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Much remains the same since I wrote this post back in 2014, and some are actually worse. One […]

Amanda Shaffer 25/11/2019 Current Events, Politics

Mea Culpa

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Almost daily I tell folks in my workshops and discussions that it’s okay to make mistakes. When we […]

Amanda Shaffer 10/10/2019 Philosophical

Invitation to Discomfort

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For the first time since the slaughter of the children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, hearing […]

Amanda Shaffer 09/08/2019 Current Events, Politics, Uncategorized

Carrot and Stick

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I don’t know about you but I seem to have an almost magical ability to catalog every moment […]

Amanda Shaffer 31/07/2019 Philosophical, Random Stuff, Uncategorized

Blindspot

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Watching the students who survived the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School become activists has both […]

Amanda Shaffer 06/03/2018 Current Events, Politics

Job vs Career

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When I tell the story of my career path I often use the image of a mosaic. I […]

Amanda Shaffer 23/01/2017 Current Events, Feminism, Politics

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

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

Talking About Race

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Given their druthers race is not usually the go to conversation topic for most people. It’s not hard […]

Amanda Shaffer 24/04/2015 Current Events, Feminism, Philosophical

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

Bias and Believing

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Thank god for cell phones. The images of the protests and police reaction in Ferguson, Missouri over the […]

Amanda Shaffer 15/08/2014 Current Events, Politics

No Duty To Retreat

An uncomfortable truth is hidden under the national discussion about music being played too loud, and the hoodies […]

Amanda Shaffer 05/03/2014 Current Events, Politics, Writing

Context Matters

Context matters. Until it doesn’t. Watching and listening to the story unfold of how NFL player Richie Incognito […]

Amanda Shaffer 17/11/2013 Current Events, Philosophical

Deserving Poor

If there is one phrase I could will out of existence it would be “the deserving poor.”

Amidst endless obfuscation and obstruction of the Affordable Care Act and the de-funding of food stamps, politicians, pundits and your average person on the street continue to qualify charity as only appropriate for the deserving.

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