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looking closely at how different ecosystems are defined as impaired based on “intended use,” we can find that, as with legislative definitions of human disability in the US, the inability to work, to be able to labor and produce capital, is essential for how and when ecosystems are defined as impaired in US policy.
Sunaura Taylor • Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
Some research found that ongoing negative feedback towards the young person’s intuitive perception is the most damaging (Park et al., 1992). If the parents explicitly or implicitly reject the child’s idiosyncrasies, the child will internalize the shame of rejection and experience themselves as being profoundly bad (toxic shame), and their natural
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DOCUMENTAIRES | Réjane d'Espirac | Autrice et réalisatrice | Regard sensible sur le monde
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The danger of reductionist scientific narratives causing existential distress and the responsibility scientists have in their storytelling.
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I receive pretty much daily emails from people who say things like, I've read your paper. I now understand that I'm a collective of cells and furthermore a self-constructing or whatever. And I don't know what to do with myself. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm depressed.
I think we have to come to grips with the fact that some people
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Sunaura Taylor • Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
The health of the human body is ultimately dependent on the health of habitat and community. And yet, this connection is almost universally ignored in modern health disciplines where biomedical reductionism rules the day. Human health and environmental preservation are treated as entirely different fields, with miles of empty space between them.
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
The moment we’re in is asking our right brain to seriously step up its game. Jamey: It most certainly is. Andrew: How? What does Jamey the psychotherapist have to say?