1st March is Self-Injury Awareness Day .... in 2014 I wrote 'Otis Doesn't Scratch': a two-part resource to help young children understand why others self-harm. I have five copies of the book for anyone who would benefit from a free copy - just message me pccs-books.co.uk/products/otis-…

Yes!

"This horrible worldview is precisely the vile bilious hatred condemned over and over by the very religion these people claim to believe in." Once again, ⁦@Stonekettle⁩ nails it. Stonekettle Station: Recap: Mar 1, 2022 stonekettle.com/2022/03/recap-…

Beautiful

Conspiracy theories in science ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

🔥🔥🔥 Brilliant--please watch. This is how it's done, Democrats. Don't stop fighting and don't back down. Thanks for the heads-up @natsechobbyist

#AfghanWomen #solidarity

This is fantastic. 🤣🤣

orc who gets laid off from rampaging across the countryside and has to get a new job as a high school teacher

Most British people have never known another monarch, so she’s been a thread winding through all our lives. She did her duty by the country right up until her dying hours, and became an enduring, positive symbol of Britain all over the world. She’s earned her rest. #TheQueen

It is entirely possible that entire professional cultures may have, what Freud termed, low ego-strength - i.e. low capacity to face full & bare reality, especially when decidedly unpleasant, without escaping via the more primitive defences of aggression, distortion & denial.

Thesmophoria was an all-woman festival in honor of Demeter, held in late October/ November, across Ancient Greece. Plants associated with this festival were pennyroyal & pine - known abortifacients. It’s been suggested the Thesmophoria was actually a celebration of birth control.

What is inclusion?

There were many powerful moments in Jon Stewart's special on trans people. But the where Jon tells Arkansas AG Rutledge that he would go through hell or high water if he had a trans kid, and that her law was "antithetical to the values she professes to espouse." I cried.

Anthropologists have noted how many indigenous groups use instances of individual distress as occasions to inspect what's wrong with the social group; the individual embodies the unworked-through tensions & pains of the collective. Via this social ritual the individual is healed.

I was recently on a flight to Charlotte, and when the flight landed two women, one Black one white, got into an argument after bumping into one another in the aisle. When they got off the plane, the white woman turned to the Black woman, red with anger, and called her the n-word.

Anyone tried this?

How often it is that a young person’s pain (self-harm; eating problems) is a violent attack, via the self, on a dysfunctional family, school or wider system; a violent call for systemic change. But we rarely see it like that - instead we pathologise them & treat *their* disorder.

The American Academy of Pediatrics now states point blank that you should not punish children with violence. npr.org/2018/11/11/666…