1329 || filling your cup IN community
"The burnt out don't need more alone time." - Ayesha Khan Ph.D."A world where we are isolated is a world where it is easier to pit us against each other." - Luke AllenRESOURCE 1: https://wokescientist...
8 Jan 202510min
1328 || true community is inconvenient, too.
Capitalism + consumer culture has taught us that independence = success, but what if our culture is wrong? What if community's inconveniences are less cumbersome than the inconveniences that come from...
7 Jan 20259min
1327 || true friendship is inconvenient
"That's why it's hard to make friends when you're older," she said. "Friendship is rude." Her friend's eyes widened. "What?" "Think about it! When we're kids we decide who we like and stick by them no...
6 Jan 202510min
1326 || tyranny of the ideal woman (part two)
Jia Tolentino said "We have not “optimized” our wages, our childcare system, our political representation; we still hardly even think of parity as realistic in those arenas, let alone anything approac...
5 Jan 202510min
1325 || the tyranny of the ideal woman
Jia Tolentino said "Figuring out how to “get better” at being a woman is a ridiculous and often amoral project – a subset of the larger, equally ridiculous, equally amoral project of learning to get b...
4 Jan 20258min
1324 || slow living as a resolution
"Slow living is a conversation inherently steeped in privilege. “So many systems are stacked against members of our society who are, in theory, desperate to slow down, but the structure of capitalism ...
3 Jan 202510min
1323 || the best advice of 2024 (part 3)
It’s their first time being a person too. Grief distorts reality. Joy is not passive. Done > perfect. The obstacles in your path are your path. Be a good parent to you. Instead of figuring it all out ...
2 Jan 202510min
1322 || the best advice of 2024 (part 2)
17. People show love in many different ways. At some point, we have to understand that just because someone isn’t capable of communicating love in a healthy way doesn’t mean they don’t love you. But i...
1 Jan 202510min
