The Authenticity Experiment, the mostly anxiety anniversary edition. My friend Lesbiana Profundis, aka my secret weapon, laughs at my Rainman-like ability with dates. Take July 20th, for instance. A year and two days ago, I began the Authenticity Experiment. AE was a writing challenge for myself—to see if I could be authentic and tell the truth on social media. Here’s the lead from that very first post: “I’m posting this to kick off my own…
Month: <span>July 2016</span>
The Authenticity Experiment, the unexamined privilege edition. I’ve been thinking so much about #AltonSterling and #PhilandoCastile, and the officers who were killed in Dallas and St. Louis. But mostly, I’ve been thinking about the incredible privilege I have simply because of the accident of my birth: born to an Irish/English mother and a Polish/German/Lithuanian father. In case you’re not following my logic or you’ve never seen a picture of me—that makes me white. As a…