by Diverse Elders | Nov 20, 2017
Elizabeth (liz) Anh Thomson (they/them/theirs) identifies as a bi/queer, Vietnamese adoptee, disabled, gender non-conforming, cisgender female. They were adopted from Vietnam in 1974 by two sisters, Alva (ma) and Betty Thomson (mom). They were raised in Indianapolis,...
by Diverse Elders | Nov 16, 2017
All too often, history is written by those in the mainstream, and the stories of marginalized communities – the stories of our elders – are lost. A team in St. Louis is working to recapture and map the history of LGBTQ communities in the region, and last month, they...
by Diverse Elders | Nov 13, 2017
By Jacqueline García. Click here to read this article in Spanish. Every morning, Eduardo arrives at a day laborer center in Los Angeles to pick up his crew for the day. Depending on the working schedule, the 52-year-old man takes between two and four men to work in...
by Diverse Elders | Nov 10, 2017
by Carolyn Ayon Lee. This article was originally published by Honolulu Civil Beat. Were it not for Hawaii’s Pidgin English, I doubt my Grandma and I, her first grandchild, could’ve understood each other, she knowing very little English, and I, an ignoramus about her...
by Diverse Elders | Nov 8, 2017
by Richard Eisenberg. This post originally appeared on Next Avenue. As Next Avenue has noted, there are huge wealth and income disparities between blacks and whites in America (average wealth of white families was more than $500,000 higher than African Americans in...
