What parenthood can teach us about social justice On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, George Floyd’s murderer was found guilty by a jury of his peers on all three counts: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. George Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020, while being arrested on the suspicion of having used a …
by Roxana Cazan 
The recent rise of the political far-right is just one symptom of the antisemitism and violence against women that plague Romanian society By Roxana Cazan On March 27, Romanian Jewish actress Maia Morgenstern and The Jewish State Theatre in Bucharest, Romania received a horrific email threatening with murder, arson, and defamation. Not only was the …
by Roxana Cazan 
Why is it that when I was faced with overt xenophobia, my heritage saved me? Why is it that I identified as solely Romanian, when someone was attacking me? I am a Romanian-American writer, teacher and healer. When this incident happened, I could not believe it. I felt the earth shatter under my feet and …
by Adela Sinclair 
What’s in an Ally? Engaged Philanthropy and Compassionate Partnership A Conversation with Cristiana Grigore at the Roma Peoples Project, Columbia University. Read the first part of this series on racism against Roma people here To further my understanding of what being an ally for the cause of the Roma people entails, I decided to interview Cristiana …
by Roxana Cazan 
Martisor March begins with the celebration of Marţisor on the 1st of the month, a day during which Romanians observe the beginning of spring. While the Romanian traditional society welcomed March as the start of a new agricultural season by celebrating the possibility of germination, birth, and renewal, modern communities in Romania, no longer dependent …
by Roxana Cazan 
We will weep in public. We will not wipe away our tears,Stifle our groans or quiet our anger.We will cause interruption and discomfortBecause that’s what grief demands. We will weep in public. We will create memorials together and alone,Whether side by side or across digital spaces.We will do it when it’s personal andWhen we never …
by Brit Cooper Robinson 
I’m a survivor of sexual assault. And I haven’t told many people that in my life. But when we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other. With these words, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez opened up such an important discussion on a critical topic. Trauma is all around us. Regardless of where you stand politically, trauma …
by Andreea Mile 
Part 1 6 Ways to Be a Better Ally for Roma People[1] I was born in Sibiu, Romania, in the 1980s, at a time when the socialist welfare state determined to provide “stable, if inadequate, jobs and social services to the Roma community” as Oana Oprean suggests. Part of the socialist solution was to integrate …
by Roxana Cazan 
If you haven’t been asleep for the last few years, you might’ve noticed that extremes of both the Left and the Right have become louder in the United States. In the spirit of ARCHER’s values of equity and equality, I think we need to be aware of our biases when we communicate. Ideological Labels We …
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