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I think that intersectionality is one of the best things that has ever happened to feminism. The idea that our experiences differ based on overlapping and intersecting identities makes a lot of sense to me. Black women are going to have a different experience than white women…
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I’ve been listening to a very annoying argument between different groups of people involving trans people and sports. I’ve been thinking on it, and I…
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Almost two years ago, I had an episode of psychosis. During this episode, I “heard” “God” talking to me. It was not like a “voice” in my ear or in my…
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I think that there are some forms of cultural appropriation that are undeniably offensive. Something like blackface, for example, has a long history of…
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“Taking it in its deepest sense, the shadow is the invisible saurian tail that man still drags behind him. Carefully amputated, it becomes the healing…
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Of course, there are valid reasons to lie. Your six-year-old wants to know if the food they made tastes good (it doesn’t). Your husband wants to know if…
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Once upon a time, there was a philosophy professor. He loved Nietzsche. The professor had a habit of developing close relationships with certain…
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Roy Sullivan was a park ranger who was struck by lightning seven times. He was born in Virginia on February 7th, 1912. The first time he jumped out of a…
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