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Things Aren’t Black and White

An open letter to my Stanford Law family trying to make sense of the last few days…

11 min readMar 15, 2023

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Picking Up the Pieces

The latest Los Angeles City Council is personal. It cuts deep.

11 min readOct 12, 2022

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Not Just a Student

Today as I was helping my son pick out his favorite pink shirt for school he noticed my rainbow wristband. He asked what it was for and I…

7 min readMay 1, 2024

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Four Years Later, I Still Can’t Breathe Deeply

But I Am Alive

18 min readJan 20, 2021

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Beyond a Momentary Movement

This is the moment we hoped wasn’t coming. This is the moment we knew was coming. This is the moment that never really left.

10 min readAug 28, 2020

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Stop Killing Us: A Real Life Nightmare

I started writing something, because that’s what I do. But this time healing through words didn’t work. In fact, it hasn’t in a while…

7 min readMay 28, 2020

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You Better Run, Boy

Is the year lost? Does it matter? Does anything even matter? I’m sure you’ve been involved in conversations with people asking these same…

3 min readMay 7, 2020

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Confronting Power and Privilege

I invite all transportation professionals wondering how to think about equity — and those trying to ignore equity — to think about this…

12 min readApr 21, 2020

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Confronting Power and Privilege

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Not Interested in Your New or Old Normal: This Shouldn’t Be Normal

This is really hard. Not just trying-to-think-of-the-last-time-a-whole episode-of-Saturday-Night-Live-was-good hard. Not just…

7 min readApr 14, 2020

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Not Interested in Your New or Old Normal: This Shouldn’t Be Normal

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Mediocre

Imma let you get back to your victory lap, Joe…but hear me out for a second. I’m going to vote for whoever gets this Dem nom because as a…

4 min readMar 4, 2020

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tamika l. butler

tamika l. butler

tamika is a land use, equity, & social and racial justice advocate. She's an Urban Planning PhD student at UCLA & the Principal at tamika l. butler consulting

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