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Social Class and Mental Health
April and May are Stress Awareness and Mental Health Awareness months. Taking care of mental health is critical. It is especially so during this current moment rife with war, civil rights pullbacks, and increased, unchecked discrimination against racial, gender and religious groups outside of the power elite. As in so many other areas, social class […]
Goodbye 2025 and Welcome New Year
For social class bridgers like you, our UU Class Conversations partners, 2025 has been a truly challenging year. From the start, the optics of tech multi-billionaires standing directly behind Donald Trump during the presidential inauguration made the administration’s priorities abundantly clear. The class metrics of wealth, power and status would trump every other social class […]
Say Yes to Resistance
by Betsy Leondar-Wright The election outcome was a shock – but wasn’t something new. Throughout U.S. history we’ve had waves of right-wing populism, when people bought into explanations of their economic hardships that scapegoat other marginalized groups and reject traditional elites. This election was a right-wing populist upsurge that few of us saw coming. We […]
