Supergirl and Targeted Universalism
Focusing on equity (and therefore disparities) foments and deepens the perception of competition between groups. It becomes a zero-sum contest of winners and losers (if they get more, we get less) when the point of climate activism is to promote an improved future for everyone.
Urban Magic + the Promise of Positive Integration
Is it possible to build a “positively integrated” rather than an “incompletely gentrified” neighborhood in historically disinvested Black communities like Crenshaw in South Los Angeles?
Take a Knee
Racial health and criminal justice disparities are on full display in this season of COVID-19, police killings, and curfews. Less blatant but no less insidious is America’s racial wealth divide, widened and deepened by years of discriminatory housing policies.