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 …
Category Archive: news
Dec 16 2012
You are Not His Mother
This is excerpted and edited from something I put on Facebook. There is a horrible article going around. I am Adam Lanza’s Mother, it says. It’s the story of a mother who has a mentally ill child. I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me. [...] …
Dec 14 2012
When You Tie Shootings to Mental Illness
If you’ve read my work, you know I am massively for mental healthcare reform. Not just a little bit in favor, but balloons and blog posts on blog posts and boundless enthusiasm for it. But you know when I’m really really uncomfortable talking about mental health? Right now. Tragedies are horrible. They’re senseless. School shootings are …
Nov 29 2012
Link, Plank, Plunk
[+1 internet for naming the composer this title is in reference to.] Didya see that? I was posting regularly last week! Nearly-almost-daily! It was great! It’s going to keep happening, I promise. However, I’ve just had two finals in two days and my brain has given up on almost anything but simple sentences and sleep. …
Nov 13 2012
Your Waffle Fries
[Content note: aggravated homophobia] You might remember when Chick-Fil-A was in the news a few months back. WinShape, the ‘charitable’ arm of the corporation had been donating to anti-LGBT groups for a while, but Dan Cathy, CEO, had just reaffirmed his inability to understand the meaning of charitable in a few paragraphs of biblical-family-and-tradition nonsense. …
Jul 20 2012
Dark Knight Massacre: Weird Facts UPDATE
The theatre where the shooting took place is only something like 12 miles from Littleton, where the Columbine shooting took place. From ABC news: A San Diego woman who identified herself as James Holmes’ mother told ABC News she had awoken unaware of the shooting and had not yet been contacted by authorities. She immediately …
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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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