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7 Better Ways To Support Someone With A Mental Illness

7 Better Ways To Support Someone With A Mental Illness

Chester Bennington is gone and I’ve been thinking all week about what it means for someone who kept so many people from committing suicide to have themselves committed suicide. It’s sort of unfathomable, in its way, like the way the world works is broken, like glue...

Why Are We So Shocked That Women We Know Were Abused?

Why Are We So Shocked That Women We Know Were Abused?

As I become more open about my own experiences with gender oppression, I am repeatedly struck by two vastly different reactions to my presented facts and anecdotes. Men often recoil or become defensive. Some of these issues are ugly and raw and difficult to stomach,...

Why It’s Easier To Be A White Addict

Why It’s Easier To Be A White Addict

The New York Times published an article by Katharine Q. Seelye today titled “As Heroin Use by Whites Soars, Parents Urge Gentler Drug War.” Much of the meat is in the title: white people are suddenly doing a ton of heroin, and so drug abuse should be decriminalized....