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Hyper-masculine culture? Whoa, bro!

Click to view larger Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier I’m not your brother, and I know this because my brother doesn’t put me down the way words like “man up” do. I write this as a gift to myself but more importantly to thousands of victims of hyper-masculine cult ...

October 19th, 2016 - Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier
2016 election: protecting the White majority

Click to view larger Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier America just announced, endorsed and elected a celebrity, alleged rapist and very outspoken racist as the 45th President of the United States. Did we hear that correctly? Did the ink on this page just lie? I wi ...

November 16th, 2016 - Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier
Hey Trump, would Jesus do that?

Click to view larger Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier Take a seat. I’m not here to condemn you or pressure you to believe or do anything. Let’s just take a look at Donald Trump’s campaign and first weeks in office compared with the beliefs of the majority group th ...

February 15th, 2017 - Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier
Hierarchy culture at the airport and at Starbucks

Click to view larger Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier It was midwinter break and I had a week off from work as my students were on a well-needed break. I got my ticket and headed to the airport for some much-needed sun in L.A. As I arrived at the airport — maybe i ...

March 15th, 2017 - Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier
Radical Humanity: In poetry and song, Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier seeks to rebuild lost connections

Click to view larger Photo courtesy Tanner Wendell Stewart Whether in song, poetry or his monthly columns in Real Change, Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier invokes a sense of humanity in every word. The writing always speaks to a piece of humanity we’ve lost, to th ...

August 23rd, 2017 - Aaron Burkhalter
They don’t want to see us happy

Real Change columnist Click to view larger I see it every day: Supporters of White supremacy are jealous of our talents, our beauty, our struggle, our wit and our premise through which we dance off the plagues of the world, how we laugh hard because we kn ...

February 21st, 2018 - Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier
Son the Rhemic creates songs filled with ethereal wonderment

Real Change columnist Click to view larger Son the Rhemic is the perfect mysterious friend, the antidote for the lonely, those who think they are the only ones to experience the only things they experience. Born Tyson Kimbrough, in March of 1991, the now ...

January 17th, 2018 - Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier
Black women saved us again

Real Change columnist Click to view larger Black women have been saving us for decades, and now the credit is patronizingly skewed. A fervent 98 percent of Black women in Alabama voted for Doug Jones, the newly elected Alabama senator, and Black America i ...

December 20th, 2017 - Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier
The Peoples Party and Nikkita Oliver: Election Night and the next steps

Real Change columnist Click to view larger Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier Nikkita Oliver announced Seattle Peoples Party simultaneously as she announced her candidacy for Mayor on March 8, International Women’s Day. She has already made a lasting imprint on Seat ...

August 23rd, 2017 - Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier
Shaping up the 2017 mayoral race

Real Change columnist Click to view larger Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier The six frontrunners — Nikkita Oliver, Bob Hasegawa, Jessyn Farrell, Jenny Durkan, Mike McGinn and Cary Moon — sat down for the Growing Gracefully Mayoral Forum this month. Most of the can ...

July 19th, 2017 - Gui Jean-Paul Chevalier