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    Meaningful Rituals Can Play a Role in Divorce, Too

    Meaningful Rituals Can Play a Role in Divorce, Too

    Recently I was in Ashland for the first time to see shows at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. As with any city I visit, I searched for local bookstores. There are…

    Automatic Thoughts

    Automatic Thoughts

    Henry unexpectedly came home from work two hours early. Instead of giving him a friendly greeting, his partner Andy glared at him in silence and walked away. Henry was confused…

    Balancing Civil Rights and Religious Freedom

    Balancing Civil Rights and Religious Freedom

    The idea that someone can be fired for exercising his or her personal freedoms—especially those we have fought for, like same sex marriage—is unthinkable. This is why many, including me,…

    ‘All Lives Matter’ Is Not Enough

    ‘All Lives Matter’ Is Not Enough

    Over the past several weeks, some people have responded to the Black Lives Matter movement by saying that “all lives matter.” While it is certainly true that all lives do,…

    Tabula Rasa Presidential Candidates Continue to Detract from What’s Really at Stake

    Tabula Rasa Presidential Candidates Continue to Detract from What’s Really at Stake

    Amidst all of the sound bites, attack rhetoric and hype around trying to focus on candidate weaknesses, it is often hard to remember that we need to focus on whom,…

    LGBTQ Studies Is a Class Whose Time Has Come

    LGBTQ Studies Is a Class Whose Time Has Come

    By Lyndsey Schlax Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts is a special place. Our students are dedicated and talented, our faculty and staff are smart and unique and…

    Groundbreaking Queer Studies Course Begins at SF High School

    Groundbreaking Queer Studies Course Begins at SF High School

    The San Francisco Unified School District this week began what district leaders say is the first LGBT studies course at a public high school in the U.S. The semester-long course…

    Next Steps Needed to Develop An LGBT Senior Mental Health Safety Net

    Next Steps Needed to Develop  An LGBT Senior Mental Health Safety Net

    In July 2013, the LGBT Aging Policy Task Force’s survey (Addressing the Needs of LGBT Older Adults in San Francisco) reported 15% of the 616 participants seriously considered committing suicide…

    Opera Superstar Frederica Von Stade to Sing Street Requiem in Support of Homeless Choir

    Opera Superstar Frederica Von Stade to Sing Street Requiem  in Support of Homeless Choir

    Famed mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade will join with a mass chorus of singers and chamber orchestra in two California premiere performances of Street Requiem by Australian composers Dr. Kathleen McGuire,…

    A Dose of Cosmic Confidence

    A Dose of Cosmic Confidence

    It is time to live large as we express our individual and collective visions. This is a potent time to bring into manifestation those aspects of your life that may…