It is a truth universally acknowledged, that any person who suffers from chronic health problems with mental health components, must be in want of someone to cheerfully suggest: "Have you tried meditation and yoga?"
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Reading Log on The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar
There is a linguistic thread that runs through The Truth About Owls that I keep catching myself thinking about.
A Short List Of Reactions In Impossible Times
Here is a short list of some behaviours and reactions I have noticed happening a lot since around mid-March. I am just noting them, not analyzing or judging them.
Brief assortment of interesting stuff — 15th of March 2019
This week: a post-apocalyptic novel by Aliette de Bodard in the ruins of Paris, the ethics of mining trauma for literature by Lindsay Nixon, the inimitable Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom, a critical look at IWD in Québec by Émilie Nicholas in Le Devoir, and more!
Navigating Doubt
A personal blog post about my mental illness struggles, having empathy, having anxiety, and the world being such a shitty place so much of the time.
On our love of monsters
In The Last Jedi, director Rian Johnson's was playing off audience's expectations from messed-up young hot male villains. "This isn't going to go the way you think."