Stolen shamelessly from Melissa McEwan – Shakesville She says so eloquently everything I am feeling… Posted: 28 Jun 2018 06:30 AM PDT [Content Note: Emotional policing; gaslighting.] Soon after the 2016 election, I published a piece with the same title as this one, in which I wrote: Something has been upended that cannot be easily righted, and I’m […]Read Post ›
The Nazis never saw themselves as villains. You look at the horrifying atrocities they committed and you think they MUST have known they were the monsters. They must have known. But they didn’t. In fact, it was just the opposite. The Nazis thought they themselves were the VICTIMS. That’s how the Nazi party came […]Read Post ›
Story by Evan Allen / May 31, 2018 Jaimee was beloved. Jaimee was struggling. And then Jaimee was gone. Her family threw everything into solving the first mystery — who killed her. The second was so much harder. How could they, how could anyone, live on without her? Swampscott — Michelle Murray-Mendez hung […]Read Post ›
A brighter political future depends upon turning out large numbers of voters of color. The governor’s race in Georgia is already one of the most closely watched in the nation, as a potential harbinger of the expected “blue wave” in 2018. Democrats haven’t held the office since Roy Barnes lost it in 2002, and […]Read Post ›
The life of a woman is a constant state of contradictions. With so many mixed messages from society about what they should and should not be, it’s no wonder our little girls are suffering with anxiety and depression. BE A LADY, THEY SAID… Your skirt is too short. Your shirt is too low. Your pants […]Read Post ›
This will break your heart…well-written and deeply heartfelt essay about poverty, limited choices, and compassion. Written by Joshua Wilkey. My mother died the day she turned 55. This Sunday will be my first Mother’s Day without her, but nearly a year after she died, I still find it impossible to be heartbroken over her passing. As […]Read Post ›
Originally posted on wemarriage's Blog | Meanderings Through Life:
They did it. They really did it. I want no advice or remedies. I just want to be heard. If you could even find the fragments of my strength, they would be scattered and crushed. My heart has found a place in my throat and in…
by Terri Kapsalis I teach “The Yellow Wallpaper” because I believe it can save people. That is one reason. There are more. I have taught Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1891 story for nearly two decades and this past fall was no different. Then again, this past fall was entirely different. In our undergraduate seminar at the […]Read Post ›
I didn’t write this. I wish I did. The way this woman levels Republicans is stunning. The author is Betsy Anderson and it’s a letter addressed to her mother with a blind copy to the GOP and all Americans. Ms. Anderson cuts straight to core and heartlessness of the GOP and it should be required reading in […]Read Post ›
I know you’ve heard it…the cry from the right that “We suffered for eight years. Now it’s your turn.” As if the Obama presidency and the Trump presidency could possibly be compared. Even though it’s only been three weeks, it’s painfully obvious they cannot… Scott Mednick received such a cry from a Trump supporter on […]Read Post ›
