- White Narrative: You Cannot Be What You Cannot See?
Can white privilege and identity become superpowers for love and justice? If I can't wait for that story, maybe I have to take the first step.
- Shells.
Friend, are you okay?
- "I Am the Wilderness": On Trust & Community
Brené Brown suggests seven elements to trust in her book, "Braving the Wilderness". You can remember these elements as an acronym: "BRAVING".
- Synchronized
A poem that found me while riding my bicycle in the early evening hours of Georgia.
- Saying No.
This is a story about how I learned to say "no", when the pressure to say "yes" was so great. Learning how to say no became my new superpower.
- A Proposal for the End of Accommodations
Language is powerful. Words are subtle building blocks to how we imagine the world around us. So, with the goal of pursuing more equitable language, I propose the end of accommodations.
- What Is Freedom?
When I first saw the letter asking for Richard Stallman and the FSF Board of Directors resignations with merely five signatures, I knew I had to sign. Not because I knew it would be the popular thing to do. But because it was what was true in my heart. Only
- Three Predictions for Free Software in the 2020s
What major changes await Free Software and Open Source in the 2020s? Flory shares three emerging trends that could shape the next decade.
- Your Software Freedom Is Not My Software Freedom: A Reflection on Chadwick Boseman
Trigger warning: Grief, police violence, death. This blog post was first written on August 28th, 2020. Today is a sad day. Chadwick Boseman is dead. At 43 years old, he lost a terminal battle with stage IV colon cancer. As his great light dims, I am left to wonder what
- Hannah/Honor Loeb: A Reflection on Death and Forgiveness
Grief is a strange emotion. Today, my memories and heart are on my former roommate and friend Hannah / Honor Loeb.