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[reposted from LinkedIn] I am the mother of a beautiful 19-year-old woman. She is smart and funny, and she can harmonize like nobody’s business, a vital skill when your mom is a singer. When I run into someone I haven’t seen in a while, they ask me about my life and of course, about my daughter. “How is your son?” they ask. “She is my daughter,” I answer, proudly. Every time I say it, I smile with the pride of a mama bear who has received the gift of watching her child find and live her truth. I then briefly...

So proud to see Amelia profiled in the Philadelphia Gay News!  

The texts started coming in early the morning of the Biden-Harris Inauguration. “Today is the day!” “We’ve waited for this and it’s finally here!” Later in the day, after Trump exited the White House and boarded his plane, the social media posts started. “I can finally breathe,” so many of them said. “He’s really gone.” Then, I got a few texts asking, “Are you so excited?” “Yes!” I wrote and immediately deleted before pressing send. “Yup,” I tried next, but I deleted that one as well. I settled on, “I’ll get there,” which was the most honest and optimistic reply...

Each year, the US House adopts their new rules package. Current events such as the violence at the Capitol and the upcoming inauguration make it easy to overlook something so routine, but the passing of the 117th Congressional rules package on Monday, January 4, 2021 was not routine, and it deserves our attention. For the first time, the House established a permanent office of Diversity and Inclusion. They renamed the Office of Whistleblower Ombudsman to the Office of the Whistleblower Ombuds. They also approved gender-neutral language in the official rules. Words like Chairman will be replaced with Chair, and seamen...