Daneth Long

i now remember what it is like to be in 8th grade, comparing yourself to all of the other girls, everyone at different stages of puberty and maturity. some are the youngest and some are the oldest, experiencing the world for the first time vs. having seen it through the eyes of older siblings. small things can be isolating, and big things can feel... See more

How novel a concept, to stay with yourself. To refuse to let a false label win, no matter how seductive, well-crafted, popularly received it becomes. You have the last word on who you are.

whatever happens to be the latest term for pathologising your life experience. Everything is flattened, simplified. I worried that being immersed in it was making me think this way too.

you can’t scale exclusivity. It’s fundamentally an oxymoron.

In the three or four decades that millennials like me have been alive, young people have been reckoning with the brutal truth that democracy works for the few, not the many. In the years following the 2008 financial crisis, quality of life declined for the most of us while the billionaires got richer. At the same time, politicians have been... See more

They're coming because they want validation. They want to touch and feel it and have somebody tell them that it looks good or that they should try something else. They want to ask a question about something they think they already know and be told that they're right about that. We focus on making sure our people are educated and they can give them... See more