Amelia Christnot is an Oglala Lakota, Kanien'kehá:ka and Metis Navy brat who settled in the wilds of Northern Maine. She considers herself another proud Maineiac. Her picture is from 1984 for purely Orwellian reasons.
In most journeys to become a medical doctor, the process of education is eight years. The first four years are spent getting an undergraduate degree. Then the next two years—after beginning medical school—are a mixture of classroom learning and labs. It’s usually only in the last one to two years of med school that students […] More
Some women carry just a wallet. Some have wallets attached to their phones. But God bless those of us carrying the bottomless pits of purses. We never know what we’ll pull out when we grab something in that dark cavern of stuff, right? GIPHY And sometimes what we pull out can be downright embarrassing. But […] More
It seems to be an everyday thing now, where video surfaces of a confrontation with a profanity spewing person and a person of color. In this case it occurred at Sesame Place, an amusement park with a Sesame Street theme, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The video only captures a woman in a black swimsuit swearing […] More
Kimberly Dobbie was sitting outside a laundromat in Lewiston, Maine in 2018 with her 11 year-old sons. An elderly man approached her then stabbed her 11 times, in broad daylight, in front of her children. The 48 year-old mother bled to death after the knife punctured her heart. A GoFundMe was established for Dobbie’s twin […] More
**Content Warning: the following contains discussion of rape and sexual assault Most of us have heard the saying “justice is blind” and seen the depictions of Lady Justice wearing a blindfold. The expression speaks to the ideal that justice is impartial and objective. Justice’s blindfold alludes to treating friends, strangers, the rich and the poor […] More
**This article contains references to hate speech and slurs To launch north London football club (soccer for those in the United States) Arsenal’s new uniforms, Adidas decided to create an interactive social media ad campaign. Fans could send their name with the hashtag #DareToCreate and Adidas’ systems would auto-generate an Arsenal jersey mock-up with their […] More
