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When in Boystown: Don't Create Racism, Create Change

Nico Lang | Posted 06.27.2012 | Chicago
Read More: Take Back Boystown, Boystown, Jezebel, Boystown Crime, LGBT Community, Center on Halsted, Slut-Shaming, Sexism, Classism, Marginalization, War on Women, Transgender, Lakeview, Safe Space, Real Housewives, Chicago Boys Town, Boystown Chicago, Boystown Inequality, Chicago News
Nico Lang

It's been almost a year since Take Back Boystown took off, and all of us still have so much work to do to build a better community. We need to stand together, or we need to stop calling ourselves a community.

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The Survival Girls: Kenya, Refugee Youth, and Safe Space

Ming Holden | Posted 12.10.2011 | Impact
Read More: Youth, Trauma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Women's Issues, International Development, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Youth Empowerment, Community Development, Gender, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Great Globe Foundation, Women's Empowerment, Hilary Clinton, Safe Space, Psychosocial-Relief, Refugees, Kenya, Ronan Farrow, Impact News
Ming Holden

Strife-ridden societies aren't furnished with peaceful town squares. I'm talking about my girls and me sitting in the dirty corner of a church, creating a temporary space from scratch with our presence.

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For the Seriously Faithful, Choosing Resistance as an Organizing Principle (and becoming Glenn Beck's worst nightmare??)

Rev. Peter Laarman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Supreme Court, The Bible, Bible, Populism, Dignity, Fascist, An Inconvenient Truth, Second Coming, Sarah Palin, Fascism, Safe Space in Tough Times, Apocalypse, Safe Space, Resistance, Glenn Beck, Yeats, Firestorm, Religion, Religion News
Rev. Peter Laarman

it seems to me that the only way forward for leaders who fully understand the dangerous nature of these times is to be both persistently reasonable and persistently theological.

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