There’s a phenomenon occurring in people’s lives that happens far more often than it should. The reviled, unsolicited, revealment of someone’s genitals, whether it be in the form of flashing in the flesh or dropping a photo in someone’s DMs, can be as shocking and traumatizing when experienced on a screen as if it were in-person.

Make no mistake: the unsolicited dong photo that is dropped like an unwanted greasy sausage in the private inboxes of unsuspecting social media users is sexual harassment. …

We are more than halfway finished with 2021. As some of us grapple with loss, anxiety, and frustration, we must resist the urge to jump into the abyss of despair and hopelessness. Understandably, the compounded events that have battered the collective human psyche during the last 18 months have felt like we are on the precipice of an apocalypse. While nothing is for certain, everything remains possible. Each morning, we awake to meet the unique offerings of a new day.

As hopeful opportunities peek upon the horizon, it’s important that we look forward to all of the fresh possibilities that…

(Originally published on February 4, 2020)

A majority of the eligible voting bloc in the United States desires progress. This is why plans like Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and Cancel Student and Medical debt poll extremely well. Americans want progress. They want a better way. Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has extended his hand to the American people in order to lead them toward a more just and fair America.

During the year that he’s been on the campaign trail, Sanders has promised the American people that he would be their voice and that as president, he…

Across the Pacific Ocean and from 7,290 miles away: that is how far I was flown to my new home away from home. From the steamy Manila heat to the glitz, glamor, and smog of Los Angeles, what I thought was going to be a short vacation became revealed to me as a new life. Our new life. My new life.

True to form, the first thing I did when I set foot in these United States of America — the gleaming beacon of hope that had been the land of dreams and achievement — was fall down the highest…

To Bernie Sanders on his birthday:

You have fought the hard fights and you have forged through the storms of partisanship and corruption in order to legislate with compassion and empathy. You have taught me to care for my fellow humans as well as the creatures who face extinction if we continue to be careless. You taught us that it is possible to have a successful career in Congress that is focused on working for the greater good, even when the desired deluge of progress functions as a mere drip.

You taught me to use as fuel my anger and…

There is a strange phenomenon that has taken hold of the cable news media and social media. Talking heads and pundits are equating the most deplorable behavior of a certain Democratic presidential candidate’s supporters with the candidate himself. Funnily enough, the same standard is not being held to any of the other candidates.

The power of Bernie Bros has been overestimated by talking heads in an attempt to gaslight the public when the moderate Democrats cannot attack the progressive candidate on policy, because Americans lean towards progressive policies. The policies are good. The candidate is hated by the mainstream. …

Imagine that you’re an apathetic citizen. Never before has a politician inspired you into paying enough attention to vote.

Then, out of nowhere, a Democratic Presidential Candidate comes along speaking your ideological language. You feel seen. You feel heard. You feel important. Finally, you’re inspired.

So you reach out to Your Candidate’s campaign. You volunteer your time, donate your money; and you tell your family, friends, and colleagues about this amazing person who will work to make everyone’s lives better. You take time off from work and bring your children to canvass and you phone bank for Your Candidate. You…

Whether you hate Bernie Sanders or you love him, you have undoubtedly heard of his fierce online army known as the Bernie Bros. According to various sources in the mainstream media, Bernie Bros are mostly white, mostly male, angry, and toxic social media users who verbally assault and harass any poor, unsuspecting user who is not a Bernie supporter.

If the term “Bernie Bro” feels like a revisited campaign resembling an echo of another candidate’s supporters, that is because the same political machine coined Obama Boys — the smear Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign launched against then-Senator Barack Obama’s supporters. Obama…