She's Evil, Most Definitely Subliminal – ZORA ZINE
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She's Evil, Most Definitely Subliminal – ZORA ZINE
Rather than living one’s life in as unmediated a fashion as possible, the self-help reader engaged in Robbins’s exercise imagines herself directing herself in a film, a ghostly puppeteer of a marionette that is her imagined self. One conceives of one’s interiority by imagining how it might appear. This double gaze is not altogether new for women, w
... See moreMicki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
If there’s one lesson to be drawn from the nocebo effect, it’s that ideas are never merely ideas. We are what we believe. We find what we go looking for. And what we predict, comes to pass.
Rutger Bregman • Humankind: A Hopeful History
I Was the Poster Girl for OCD. Then I Began to Question Everything I’d Been Told About Mental Illness
Rose Cartwrighttheguardian.com
We are currently in the uncanny valley of online expression. “Be yourself” has gone from a well-meaning kindergarten encouragement to a genuine threat. If you look closely, behind every front-facing-camera-short-form-video is a person making extreme calculations about their own authenticity. After all, we want “CREATORS” who are “REAL” ! We want th
... See moreWhether it’s the conviction that one can “manifest” their way out of financial hardship, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches, stave off cancer with positive vibes, or transform an abusive relationship to a glorious one with hope alone, magical thinking works in service of restoring agency.