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 …
Category Archive: Link Collections
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 …
Apr 08 2013
Monday Miscellany
SkepTech was glorious! (Summary incoming this evening). The anonymity panel was just plain fun, Stephanie gave an amazing talk about psychometrics, and I was happy to be around such enthusiastic, brilliant people. Also, after one week of interning, I’ve mostly figured out how blogging fits in; expect one or more smallish posts each day during …
Mar 27 2013
Link Miscellany: Unconvinced Edition
I’m back! And all of you who dropped off hugs on my last post are wonderful. It’s things like this that keep me convinced that everyone clamoring about how Teh Interwebs is ruining everything are entirely off base. I’ve got some posts planned and in the works, but for now, links and a brief rant! …
Mar 11 2013
Monday Miscellany & Questions
This weekend was lovely (if blogging-less). Ashley was in Chicago! Along with her were Sikivu Hutchinson, Ian Cromwell, Stephanie Zvan, and Anthony Pinn for a panel on real world atheism. You might recognize some of those names. I think they…blog, or something? Who knows. Speaking of blogs, Miri has the liveblog of the panel. Also, …
Mar 05 2013
Link Miscellany
Chana talks polyamorous marriage. Ability status is important to talk about in relation to health services. (And the mental health community needs to do better.) If you’ve had experiences with ability status interfering with your ability to access care, tell me about it in the comments! You’ve just been severely beaten by your partner, and …
Feb 21 2013
Kate’s Travels and Other People’s Writing
I’m traveling a great deal in the coming months. With respect to conferences, this is where I’ll be. Please comment if we’ll overlap! Skepticamp Chicago – Website Where: Fifth Province Pub at the Irish American Heritage Center Address: 4626 North Knox Avenue, Chicago, IL When: March 2nd, 11am-6pm I’ll be talking about Myths & Misinformation in Mental …
Jan 28 2013
Monday Miscellany
Hi! Remember me? I’m Kate, and I used to write regularly. [Everybody: Hi, Kate!] I disappeared last week when stress piled onto writer’s block piled onto school and my brain decided that food was THE MOST STRESSFUL THING EVARRR. But I’m back! And more importantly, this guy just started living with me: His name is …
Jan 15 2013
Link Miscellany: -isms and -ists
Excellent things that other people wrote! Fighting childhood cancer and the awful Stanislaw Burzynski at the same time! With your help, the Skeptics for the Protection of Cancer Patients plan to [raise] at least $30,000 by [Burzynski's] birthday, then challenging the Burzynski Clinic to match whatever they raise, with the total amount going to St. Jude Children’s Research …
Dec 25 2012
Holiday Miscellany
Happy Christmas if you celebrate–and I hope you weren’t too inconvenienced by everything being closed if you don’t. I’m going to be absent for a few days, so here’s some wonderful written things from the past week. Ozy Frantz has this awesome post on the important difference between unhealthy relationships and abuse. Also this one about …
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Kate Donovan
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, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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