Carol Lennox

Austin

Journalist at The Good Men Project

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Hug a Liberal Today - We Need All the Love We Can Get

3 days ago | goodmenproject.com | Carol Lennox

I used to be a hugger. A tree hugger and a people hugger. Definitely before COVID. And before about a fourth of the U.S. voting population, who actually voted, lost its entire mind this year. That’s right. I’m one of those people. I believe in climate change and climate warming. I like trees and wild animals and prefer they not die in wildfires or be eliminated for more high rise apartment and office buildings. I believe children should be housed and fed, wherever they live on the planet.
I’m Not Fool Efficient

1 week ago | goodmenproject.com | Carol Lennox

This administration has overwhelmed my low tolerance for fools. No number of clowns will make me suffer fools gladly. Every day some clown in the Trump administration does something more foolish and outrageous. More than one something. The conveniently named DOGE — to mimic the meme coin — clown car department led by a clown nobody elected, is committing tomfoolery at a breathtaking pace. Tomfoolery that threatens my, and your, health care and social security.
We Are Deporting Converts to Christianity Back to Iran Where They Will Be Killed as Apostates

2 weeks ago | goodmenproject.com | Carol Lennox

What is different about three children, their parents, and four more adults locked in the Decapolis Hotel in Panama, from hundreds of others waiting to be deported? They are Christian converts from Islam being sent from the U.S. back to Iran, where they can be killed for converting. Let me say that again.
Town Halls Are the New Protest Marches

3 weeks ago | goodmenproject.com | Carol Lennox

I’m of the generation of protesting in the streets. Not that I had access to any important streets growing up in my tiny Texas town, where even if we had marched, there would have been a total of ten of us. As soon as I grew up and moved away though, I joined protest marches. None of the ones I joined made any great difference, but the ones before I was old enough to join — against the Vietnam War, and for Civil Rights — impacted those in power and brought about change.
Patriarchal Ways

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Carol Lennox

Even within our chosen tribe,where love stretches wide,acceptance lives under siege,our bodies and desirestargeted by the self-righteous who sign lawslooking to keep us securely locked in a cage. Why do they carewho we love, how we touch? Because control breeds profit,because our bodies are their currency,because they fear a futurewhere we own ourselves, our sovereignty. Population means labor,means hands for their machines,means mindless obedienceto the tune of capitalism.
Public Schools Throughout the U.S. Are Endangered Now More Than Ever

1 month ago | goodmenproject.com | Carol Lennox

My former boss, close friend, and principal of the school where I was school counselor for seven years texted me last week. She wanted me to know my former school district was closing up to twenty schools. She and I, and our mutual friend, another former school counselor, are sad and disheartened by the news. We aren’t the only ones. Parents have flooded school board meetings. They presented petitions and asked pointed questions at a public meeting where the potential closures were explained.
That’s Not How Cats Work

1 month ago | goodmenproject.com | Carol Lennox

Running and hiding is an obvious way cats show you how they don’t work. We adopted a kitten who, within less than 8 months, became a cat with a capital C. Her name is Leah, and she’s already larger than the two grown cats. When she was born — and for 8 weeks — she and her siblings were visited and terrorized by a five-year-old boy. As kittens, they scrambled to hide from him by burrowing into the couch cushions whenever he plunked them onto the couch.
I’ll Be Embracing My New Breasts and Life, After Breast Cancer Surgery

1 month ago | goodmenproject.com | Carol Lennox

The surgeon, an efficient, capable, 12-year-old looking, pixie of a woman, is assuring me the cancer in my right breast is surgically removable, and surgery was likely all I would need. I’m relieved. I’m also making jokes — because that’s what I do.
Been There, Done That, Got the T-Shirt, Cut Off the Sleeves and Fringed the Bottom for Activism

1 month ago | goodmenproject.com | Carol Lennox

I’ve been an activist since I was a fourteen-year-old teen-ager, full of fire and passion. Living in a tiny town in Texas kept me from actively marching in protest, but I gave pro-civil rights and social justice speeches in my all-white, conservative high school pro Civil Rights and Social Justice. I wrote opinion letters to our ultra-conservative newspaper. As you can guess, I wasn’t elected cheerleader or to the student government.
Public Schools Throughout The U.S. Are Endangered Now More Than Ever

1 month ago | medium.com | Carol Lennox. LPC |Carol Lennox

Public schoolsDoes anyone care about public educationCarol Lennox. LPC, M.Ed.·FollowPublished inAge of Awareness·6 min read·--https://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/MarySalen?mediatype=photography from author’s IStock licenseMy former boss, close friend, and principal of the school where I was school counselor for seven years texted me last week. She wanted me to know my former school district was closing up to twenty schools.