• Emotional Illiteracy

    I used to think most people are stupid because they lack empathy. But are they really stupid or just clueless? That thought came from a hard-earned place. I’ve always been able to have empathy for others and when you’ve spent years watching loss, watching people disappear, watching grief carve hollows in real lives, you start…


  • Fear and Loathing of a Social Science

    Dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a fellow sociologist I had no idea my college major sociology was held in such contempt until I joined social media. Suddenly everybody had opinions about sociology, most of them loud, wrong, and proudly under-researched. I just blinked like, damn, y’all really are dumb. Yeah, that was pretty…