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Sidewalks
by Elizabeth Cogliati I didn’t used to think about sidewalks much. Not even in college or immediately after, when we walked everywhere because we didn’t have a vehicle. I went to college in a compact, eminently walkable small town, but even so, I believe I logged 4 plus miles every day. Looking back on it, […]
Lifting Water Communion above Privilege and Trivia
By Rev. Amy Zucker Morgenstern A Unitarian Universalist friend and I were talking about class tensions in church, and he said that he found Water Communion hard to bear because it was so much about the places people had gone on their summer vacations. Oh yeah. I’ve been to some Water Communions that felt that […]
I Work, Therefore I Am …
by Bethany Ramirez UU Class Conversations Advisory Board member Defining Working Class How do you define “working class”? The girlfriend of a friend of mine used to insist that she was working class because her parents worked. They paid for her car, utilities and all of her credit card bills. They paid all of […]
Broke vs. “Broke” vs. Broken
by Kellie C. Kelly In Broke vs. ‘Broke’, Class Action trainer Nicole Brown explains one of the many ways class identity affects the college experience, especially in graduate school. Everyone I have ever known in graduate school has made significant sacrifices of time and treasure to complete their degrees. In order to discuss our “sacrifices […]