Kate Donovan

Author's details

Date registered: September 2, 2012

Biography

Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, the SSA Volunteer Network Coordinator for Military Academies, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau.

Latest posts

  1. Monday Miscellany: Chronic Pain, Brains, & Beauty — June 17, 2013
  2. How to Be the ‘Right’ Kind of Crazy — June 11, 2013
  3. Monday Miscellany — June 10, 2013
  4. And Then, Square One — June 5, 2013
  5. Monday Miscellany — June 3, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. When You Tie Shootings to Mental Illness — 308 comments
  2. You are Not His Mother — 163 comments
  3. A National Database of the Mentally Ill — 57 comments
  4. Do Something Good — 50 comments
  5. The Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence. (a.k.a. Harrison Bergeron) — 44 comments

Author's posts listings

May 05 2013

[Blogathon] Your Jerkbrain is a Puppy & Coping With Anxiety

Look at this face. Would you yell at this face?

I’m posting every hour on the hour until 6pm for SSAWeek! This post was suggested by William Brinkman. Have something you want me to write about? Donate $20 or more to the Secular Student Alliance and tweet me! An Exercise in Imperfect Analogies Treat your jerkbrain like a puppy. Do you scream when your fuzzy pup pees a little on …

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May 05 2013

[Blogathon] Bimodal Personalities and the Myers-Briggs

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[Part 1 of a topic suggested by @mmace134] The Myers-Briggs Personality Test is very, very popular. It’s used as a predictor of career paths, of relationship styles, of leadership ability. Basically, you take the test and answer a bunch of questions like “Do you enjoy having a wide circle of acquaintances?” (To which you can only …

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May 05 2013

[Pre-Blogathon] Of Dinosaurs and Saddles

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Part of the reason I’ve been so inactive on the internet recently is that the indomitable Louise (@spa_yedimonster) and I spent part of this week in Kentucky at a certain museum (hint: it involves creationism) you may recognize… …for a women’s conference. A full write-up (with pictures!) will be appearing over at Friendly Atheist shortly. …

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May 02 2013

Blogathonning on Sunday!

This Sunday, I’m going to be blogathonning from 10am-6pm for SSA Week. Every hour, on the hour, I’ll be posting a new post! Also blogging will be Chana Messinger and Mike Mei. All posts will be written in the hour they publish, though I will be trying to clear out some topics from my Drafts …

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Apr 29 2013

Monday Miscellany

Bitchtopia has a story you’ve heard before, written beautifully. [Content note: suicide, self-harm, abuse] Just because a story is difficult to tell, does not mean it should not be heard. Unfortunately, this story is neither unique nor rare. The odds of you having heard it before are high, perhaps you’ve even heard this one. But …

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Apr 28 2013

For Best Results, Trust in God and Use Large Sample Sizes

Belief in treatment credibility and expectancy of success across levels of belief in God.

Earlier this week, Crommunist pointed me to this article in The Atlantic, People Who Believe in God are More Responsive to Treatment of Depression. And ohhh boy do I have feelings and crinkly skeptic eyebrows. [As a side note, I’d like to thank The Atlantic for putting a link to the original research in their footnotes. Nice touch, actually …

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Apr 22 2013

Your ED Friend: Six Years Later

A photographer friend took this for me--a lasting reminder that I can be happy in this body.

[Obvious TW is really glaringly obvious.] “I had an eating disorder.” “I guessed.” We were juniors, boyfriend and girlfriend, officially. Up late and texting, doing that flirting thing where you demand each others deepest secrets and pretend you’re giving yours away. Except I did give mine away. “I had an eating disorder.” I was lying, of …

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Apr 22 2013

Monday Miscellany

Bulimia, Non-Purging Type? Should that continue to be a diagnosis? Tetyana works through it. (For a crash course on bulimia, I strongly suggest her guest post for this site.) Chana looks at glorifying political incorrectness. This social disapproval is what people are referring to when they talk about political correctness and the lack of free speech. What …

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Apr 15 2013

Monday Miscellany

Oh hai. It’s a new week! I’m back at work at the Unspecified Internship at a Neat Place. But, I can tell you what I’m doing this summer–working at the SSA! This post by Yvain/Scott Alexander is so good it gets TWO pull quotes: I can’t even get angry with people who say polyamory is …

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Apr 11 2013

So You Want To Talk About Multiple Personalities?

I’ve gotten a few requests over my blogging time to talk about multiple personality disorder. I’ve (half) jokingly told friends that this post would garner me a great deal of upset commenters but here it is.  Important Note: My opinions on the scientific validity of this disorder DO NOT reflect any belief that identified ‘multiples’ …

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