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[This article is part of ZNetwork.org’s series, Activist Diaries.] Back in the early 2000s, I was doing a lot of neighborhood based…
Cynthia Peters
Cynthia Peters is the editor of The Change Agent magazine, an adult education teacher, and a nationally known professional development provider. She creates social-justice-oriented materials that feature student voices, along with standards-aligned, classroom-ready activities that teach basic skills and civic engagement. As a professional development provider, Cynthia supports teachers to apply evidence-based strategies to improve student persistence and develop curriculum and program norms that promote racial equity. Cynthia has a BA in social thought and political economy from UMass/Amherst. She is a long-time editor, writer, and community organizer in Boston.
There are structural impediments to women taking their rightful place as citizens in the United States
Extreme philanthropy is not the answer to extreme inequality
Recent news threatens to fragment our attention and make us numb. But we can refuse to get scattered and helpless
Words may not be violent, but they exhaust us and help internalize our oppression. Fight back with solidarity
Much of the organizing in the U.S. is guilty of focusing on short-term outcomes and not thinking about how the work is developing the people who are doing it
The Pope’s decision to allow priests to forgive women for having abortions reveals just how targeted women’s bodies are and, given the crimes being committed on the planet right now, how hypocritical the church is in whom it condemns
The FDA’s decision to approve a drug designed to increase women’s libido is not a feminist victory. But it reminds us of what we need to be fighting for
Two injuries send a family down the rabbit hole of a for-profit healthcare system and a skimpy social safety net, offering one window into what it’s like to get sick in the US
But it’s not enough to micromanage parents’ behaviors; we need system-wide change that supports parents to do the hard work of raising children.