Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Nowhere to Go: Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Struggle to Find Stability
Esohe Omo rolled the stroller holding her 18-month-old daughter, Sindy, through the doorstep of the Young Adult Resource Network (YARN) building in Dorchester. She visits YARN every week to meet up with some friends and fellow foster youth to eat some dinner or ask the life coaches for help finding a place to stay. “I…
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Youth Aging Out: An Interview with CFCS Executive Director Maria Mossaides
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Every year, hundreds of young adults become ineligible to continue receiving care from the Commonwealth’s Department of Children and Families due to age restrictions. Maria Mossaides, executive director of Cambridge Family and Children’s Service and co-chair of the Massachusetts Task Force on Youth Aging Out of Foster Care, works to help many of these…
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GOP Gubernatorial Hopefuls Split on Climate Change
BOSTON, Mass.—You would be forgiven for thinking GOP gubernatorial candidates Charlie Baker and Mark Fisher agree on a lot of things about government. In debates, the two are often on the same page over job growth and tax issues. But as Baker, the party’s 2010 hopeful, fends off attacks from the Democratic party of Governor…
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Forty Years Later, Busing Crisis Stirs Controversy
BOSTON, Mass.—Three Boston city councilors stirred up controversy recently by voting “present” when Councilor Charles Yancey proposed a resolution to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. While 10 of the 13 councilors voted in favor,…
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Indefinite Internment
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Poetry
Raindrops If kisses were raindrops I’d send you showers If hugs were seconds I’d give you hours If smiles were water I’d send you the sea If love was a person I’d send you me not good enough Why am I not good enough for you? For your love? Sometimes I feel like I’m…
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The Birth of Ar Lain Ta, Part Three
At that moment, Nang Saeng Zoom appeared, and light seemed to shine from her eyes as she lifted Chang Te Tzu as if he weighed nothing, carrying him quickly into her dwelling. His personal guards stood well away and did not interfere, being afraid that they would be struck with the strange malady that had…
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There Is No Color Here
Over the past few weeks, we have heard about racism everywhere, from a tax-evading cow farmer to the NBA. Once again there were racial slurs hurled at an opposing hockey player in Boston. The list just goes on. I do not really have an opinion on the matter. Why? Because I have talked about racism…
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To Protect and Serve? Police Militarization from "Urban Shield" Has Boston Residents Worried
Faneuil Hall was full of tourists, the smell of food and the sound of a street performer drumming on buckets. A circus tent was set up just outside City Hall Plaza, the sounds of the announcer and the cheering audience filling the typically empty plaza. No one – not the tourists, not the street performers,…
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