Shannon Rogers

Tell your baby that I'm your baby

Mitski sings, "Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me / but I do, I think I do.

The central question of the book is, what does it mean to be an American, and who decides?

The implications of these findings may seem dire, suggesting that parental trauma predisposes offspring to be vulnerable to mental health conditions. But there is some evidence that the epigenetic response may serve as an adaptation that might help the children of traumatized parents cope with similar adversities. Or could both outcomes be possible... See more

My grandmother loved us with her whole heart. But, like so many Americans, she had a lot of trauma stored in her body, and she passed on some of that trauma—as well as her love and resilience—to her children and grandchildren.

As children grow up, they may harbor guilt since they feel conflicted between wanting to live out their authentic truth yet fearing they could lose their mother’s love if it’s perceived as a rejection of her teachings. They may unconsciously respond by developing adaptive survival mechanisms to secure their mother’s love

When my students walk through the threshold of my classroom, they not only carry the weight of these experiences with them, but they also reproduce negative and destructive interactions with one another because they haven’t often experienced a world of safety and empathy.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said officers will now consider whether an applicant for benefits, such as a green card, "endorsed, promoted, supported, or otherwise espoused" anti-American, terrorist or antisemitic views.

"America's benefits should not be given to those who despise the country and promote anti-American ideologies," Matthe... See more

The adoption of birthright citizenship in the United States can be traced to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868. Enacted following the end of the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment (among many things), guaranteed certain rights for African Americans in all states.