"A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us." This is excellent: themarginalian.org/2024/08/19/win…

This is brilliant. I suspect the authors of the book in question don’t understand the meaning of ambivalent.

Most able bodied people aren’t afraid of becoming disabled because they believe the system will support them. That doctors will work night and day to figure out what’s wrong when they’ll most likely tell you it’s just anxiety.

Two days left to submit your abstracts on The Work of Sculpture. Association for Art History University of York. Image: Ann Hamilton, indigo blue, 1991/2007. Photo: SFMOMA ©️Ann Hamilton

Kamala Harris was the perfect candidate and she ran a beautiful campaign of joy, empathy, and unity. She just happened to run in a nation that is addicted to nihilism, cruelty, and division.

A lighthouse for dark times themarginalian.org/2024/11/06/tra…

The people in my autism parenting groups who are just figuring out what gutting the Department of Education is going to do to their kids, after they voted for Trump. Whew, chile. It’s a whole lotta, “They can’t do that, right?” Nah, bro. They can and they’re gonna.

If you have a child with special needs with an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) the Department of Education makes sure your local school district has the resources to meet your child’s needs. No DOE means no one to enforce those IEPs. Your kid is getting warehoused.

As a young person, I began as a profoundly apolitical writer, but as I grew, I began to do what all poets do: I began to describe the world around me. —Atwood

"Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory or defeat. Poems, regardless of any outcome, cross the battlefields, tending the wounded" --John Berger

One of my favorite bits of trivia is that Trump doesn’t grasp the concept of “time zones.”

Thoughts?

Out now! 🎉 Fragmentary Forms by Dr Freya Gowrley is a beautifully illustrated history of #collage from the origins of paper to today, offering a global perspective on one of the world’s oldest & most enduring means of cultural expression: hubs.ly/Q02XV1pd0

Bodies can be embarrassing Your nose bleeds. You defecate blood by a tree. You vomit in front of a disappointed-looking pig People have always had these problems: so next time they happen to you, think of these gentle, unselfconscious 17th century Europeans and feel less alone

There is no such thing as a baby…if you set out to describe a baby, you will find you are describing a baby and someone. A baby cannot exist alone but is essentially a part of a relationship. - Donald Winnicott (1947)