There are four key ingredients to building and maintaining successful friendships: investment, emotional closeness, trust, and support. By Dr. Marcus C. Shepard After a year-and-a-half of battling Zoom fatigue, isolation, and a host of mental strains, it should come as no surprise that some of our friendships have taken a backseat as we try to...
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Climate Crisis And The Perils of Incrementalism
Climate specialists have characterized the climate crisis as unpreventable. The planet is heating beyond repair, and yet, communities are still forced to negotiate with elected officials, begging and pleading for their lives, for a dignified chance at survival. By Kyliel Thompson In 1989, the late, but always timely, James Baldwin invoked a modification of progress...
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‘The White Lotus’ And Why Whiteness Cannot Truly Critique Itself
The reason “The White Lotus” can’t fully commit to its critique on whiteness and power is simply because then white people wouldn’t watch it. By Ebony Purks HBO’s latest hit series The White Lotus aired its sixth and last episode on Aug. 15. Many viewers (particularly viewers of color) were left with a lingering dissatisfaction...
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It’s Not So Much The Basquiat, but the Tiffany Blood Diamond
The Tiffany Diamond is one of the largest ever “discovered.” Its beauty belies the history of colonization and exploitation of the African continent. By Arielle Gray The Carters are the new faces of Tiffany & Co.’s latest campaign. The campaign is a “first” in many ways. A never-before-seen painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat is propped up...
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Jameela Jamil Is Unqualified To Be A Mental Health Advocate
Not only is Jameela Jamil ill-equipped to be a mental health advocate, she has shown that she doesn’t care to learn better. By Candice Alaska [TW: brief mention of gun violence and murder, sexual violence towards women, and police violence towards disabled BIPOC.] Ever one to be a part of the discourse, self-described “Feminist-in-Progress” and...
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Worker Exploitation, Capitalism, and The “Normal” We Can’t Return To
In a capitalist system, “normal” means worker mistreatment and exploitation, and this disproportionately impacts already marginalized groups. By Princess Avianne Charles “Normal” was considered many things but it certainly was not good enough. For many, what was considered normal was mentally and physically draining, it revoked them of their access to basic necessities and it...
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‘The White Lotus’ Is An Exercise in White Privilege None of Us Asked For
‘The White Lotus’ says nothing at all, except for what we already know, which is that those who benefit from whiteness are very rarely willing to divest from it. By Arielle Gray [CN: this article contains spoilers for HBO’s “The White Lotus”] In the opening scene of HBO’s The White Lotus, viewers know that someone...
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“Bisexual Men Are The Best In Bed” Is Fetishistic Biphobia
Using bisexual+ men’s presumed superlativeness encourages sexual intrigue firmly rooted in the biphobic reduction of bisexual+ men to objects of sexual pleasure. TW: biphobia, sexual violence/rape culture, mention of sexual abuse against boys, mention of genitalia, fetishization of bisexual+ men, misogyny By J.R. Yussuf “Bisexual men are the best in bed” is a comment that...
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With Both COVID and Abortion Access, The Government Abandons Young People
The dignity, citizenship and humanity of young people have always been treated as unimportant or collateral in culture wars and both national and geopolitical conflicts. CW: r*pe, sexual assault By Kylie Cheung With the new school year around the corner, the Delta variant spreading rapidly among the unvaccinated, and no guidelines still on if and...
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What A Psychiatric Hold Taught Me About Prison and Policing
Both the police and the mental health industry treat us inhumanly by taking us away from our homes and placing us in cells. By Treva Flores “Treva Flores… 1995. Treva. God. Treva God Brain. But Treva Not God. Treva,” my head raced while two police officers handcuffed me. I was 5150’d, later changed to a...