Education

Graduating To What?

By Ryan Patchin / April 22, 2021

Graduating college is a big deal. Typically accompanied by a celebration, a red-inked bank statement, and shiny new career. Right?…

A Word In Edgewise: Where Are the Plagues of Yesteryear?

By E.B. Boatner / March 11, 2021

Photo courtesy of BigStock/EzumeImages I recommend Hans Zinsser’s 1935 Rats, Lice and History, a surprisingly witty, acerbic biography of Typhus.…

Minnesota Black History, Part II

By Ryan Patchin / February 25, 2021

Tracing back: Modern consequences of antiquated enactments The latest Census Bureau data shows that of Minnesota’s 5.6 million residents, about…

A Word In Edgewise: Ratiocination or Lizard Hind-Brain: What’s Your Pleasure?

By E.B. Boatner / February 25, 2021

Photo by BigStock/volodymyrscherbak In 1374, along the Rhine valley, hundreds of townsfolk danced compulsively–non-stop, for days–to exhaustion, even death. The…

Minnesota Black History: Part 1

By Ryan Patchin / February 11, 2021

The Honorable Wilhelmina M. Wright received her federal judicial commission on February 18, 2016. Image courtesy of Wilhelmina M. Wright…

Taylor Seaberg Wins Lavender Scholarship

By Ryan Patchin / December 17, 2020

Lavender is delighted to announce the first recipient of the Lavender Scholarship. Taylor Ngiri Seaberg is a gender non-binary, third…

Our LGBTQ+ Future is Still Unwritten…

By Zaylore Stout / October 8, 2020

Photo courtesy of BigStock/YakobchukOlena Sadly, most of our stories are lost. Vanished in the ash heap of history during a…

A Word In Edgewise: The First Step Toward Knowledge

By E.B. Boatner / July 30, 2020

Photo by Bigstock/zigres As the Black Plague ravaged Europe in 1346, no one understood why they’d been afflicted. The 14th…

A Word In Edgewise: Freedom’s Just Another Word

By E.B. Boatner / July 2, 2020

Photo courtesy of BigStock/Viktoriya Fivko Frances Oldham Kelsey, pharmacologist and physician, learned during her malaria research in 1942, that some drugs…

A Word In Edgewise: No Place Like Home

By E.B. Boatner / May 21, 2020

Photo courtesy of BigStock/Maridav The recent news photo of a woman with a “My Body, My Choice” sign is not…

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