Weekend Reads is a series by Wardrobe Oxygen that is published every Saturday. Art, music, interesting articles, sale alerts, and reviews of TV, movies, books, theater, and art exhibits by Alison Gary, and over-40 working mom in the Maryland Suburbs of Washington, D.C.
How to Help Black Archivist is a project by Paul Octavious, a Black queer photographer based in Chicago. He is also the founder of The Eye Eaters Society. In 2005, Paul began exploring the art of photography and it changed the trajectory of his life. Black Archivist believes in the power of the Black narrative and that…
How to Help Founded in 1973 after the simple act of a mother publicly supporting her gay son, PFLAG is the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies. Last year I walked with PFLAG Metro DC in the DC Pride parade and have…
How to Help Freedom of the press means that people have the right to give information and express opinions through publication without fear of government censorship, interference, or retribution, such as physical violence or imprisonment. The First Amendment prevents the American government from passing laws that would threaten this right. The past few weeks alone…
When we moved into our current home back in 2000, a husband, wife, and their tween daughter lived next door. Our homes are in a planned community that was part of Roosevelt’s New Deal plan. Some of the houses were made of brick, some of cinderblock, and a few, like ours, were deemed temporary housing…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by courtney (courn) ahn (@courtneyahndesign) on Feb 26, 2020 at 7:03pm PST This week… but let’s be honest, it was like any other week in America, it just…
It’s a cruel, cruel, cruel summer. Memorial Day weekend is usually spent at our neighborhood pool, but right now it’s looking exactly like the previous weekend and the one before that. School ends in two weeks and I am grateful I dropped the ball with signing our daughter up for summer camps this season and…
Funny how I keep thinking about bookcases but struggle to read a single chapter. My mind has had a hard time focusing this week, but when it gets itself into the right zone, it’s all systems go. I’m trying to figure out ways to make those zones happen more often, and the best is to…
We always knew we would send our child to public schools. By chance (or us buying a “starter home” in 2000 that we still live in and adore) we moved back to the same county where my husband and I attended public school. We had mixed public school experiences, mine more positive than my husband’s,…
At my old job, I worked for nine years in the same department. I worked my way up to a point where I had a staff of individuals I trained to be able to do whatever I delegated to them. We trusted one another, we knew our jobs, we cared about our performance and our…