Reader, writer, quilter, sewist, maker, nana, mom, political junkie, occasional Cassandra, forever student, Jersey girl in NoVa.
The opposite of fear isn’t courage; the opposite of fear is hope.
“It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah.” Cohen
Trilingual Canadian | Toronto based | Linguistics PhD | Fan of bike lanes, renewables & electrification | Pragmatic optimist | Helping to scale climate solutions at elocitytech.com and @verbaccino.bsky.social | Opinions my own.
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NB & ND (putting the aww into AuDHD) any pronouns tbh
vampire alien cat robot
Not male, not female, but a secret, third thing
Sourdough fundamentalist
Views my own only
Public defender. Professional troublemaker. Burrito and word game enthusiast.
Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
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