Things that make you go Hmmmm
Anxiety about the “meaning” of citizenship and anxiety about who belongs in America, in other words, more than share a border (pun intended?) with anxieties about low birth rates. Because the vision for raising the American birth rate is also not about creating a nation with stronger ties. Rather, it’s about forcing women back into roles that they... See more
Veronica Wong • Reproductive control and attacks on citizenship go hand in hand
I don't want a modality of therapy that teaches me how to feel at peace with a world that has enough money to feed the billions of starving people worldwide—but chooses not to.
Michell C. Clark • My therapist can't save me from capitalism, and yours can't save you, either
Invest Energy Into A Series Of Projects
Don’t learn skills.
Build projects.
Skills, like degrees, are practically useless in isolation.
A series of projects is how you move toward the life you want. If you want to receive, you must give, and keeping your knowledge in your head is a surefire way to become bitter about how smart you are and how little... See more
Don’t learn skills.
Build projects.
Skills, like degrees, are practically useless in isolation.
A series of projects is how you move toward the life you want. If you want to receive, you must give, and keeping your knowledge in your head is a surefire way to become bitter about how smart you are and how little... See more
Dan Koe • The Fastest Way Create a New Life
Not every relationship survived the hall of mirrors.
Some friendships that I thought were built on solid ground crumbled when we stopped pretending that the foundation wasn't already cracked.
Some people who claimed to love me couldn't handle the weight of my unfiltered thoughts, my newly-discovered boundaries, or my refusal to shrink back into the... See more
Some friendships that I thought were built on solid ground crumbled when we stopped pretending that the foundation wasn't already cracked.
Some people who claimed to love me couldn't handle the weight of my unfiltered thoughts, my newly-discovered boundaries, or my refusal to shrink back into the... See more
Michell C. Clark • The Wrong People Should Love You Less
Effectiveness is always contingent on the desired effect.
The effects we're least likely to examine closely are often those that perpetuate the status quo or serve interests other than our own.
When a woman who's been socialized within diet culture asks another woman who's been socialized within diet culture if a workout is effective, there's a good... See more
The effects we're least likely to examine closely are often those that perpetuate the status quo or serve interests other than our own.
When a woman who's been socialized within diet culture asks another woman who's been socialized within diet culture if a workout is effective, there's a good... See more
Tara McMullin • What Works?
Most newsletter efforts won’t become valuable until you’ve been producing work for some time and gradually built up a list of people who are invested in your work and have seen you in action. We’re talking years here. Unfortunately, by that point, some writers will have decided the email newsletter is not worth it. But the newsletter list acts like... See more
Jane Friedman • [Week 21] The problem with most newsletters (including Substacks)
Imagining communities isn’t simply about who can be in the community, but also about who in the community can participate in imagining the community. This is why the move to undo birthright citizenship, which not-so-subtly targets people of color, must also be understood alongside the move to restrict reproductive access and repeal no-fault divorce... See more
Reproductive control and attacks on citizenship go hand in hand
As for making sense of the world and what’s happening, I don’t think it’s a matter of focusing on those things , but trying to get a sense of what is in between those things. Less attention to the individual pictures on the TV set, and more attention to what is happening on the ground. It has less to do with the news stories we may not be able to... See more
Everything is In-Between
