Tag: activism
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Cardboard Fables: The Saguaro spoke to the Sky, standing defiant
On the role of defiance in achievement and protecting others as catharsis.
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A Building Analogy for Systemic and Academic Neuro-Equity
A tired analogy about barrier-free accessibility, redeployed to address systemic and modal flexibility.
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Great Mother, What Can Be Done? (with audio)
A poet’s prayer to Gaia, the Great Mother, from my collection Poems for the Anthropocene, to mark the start of COP27, with audio.
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What’s an Expat to Do?
Thoughts on anti-regime protests by Iranian expats at embassies around the world, and of the decision to stay or go that I’ve always known I’d have to make.
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Meanwhile the Everyday Violence of Apartheid in Palestine, Funded by US Tax Dollars
An update on casualties in Palestine as the Iranians try for liberty and western attention remains fixedly on Ukraine.
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Survey: Neurodiversity Initiatives on Campus: preliminary survey on neurodivergent experiences on college campuses.
If you’re neurodivergent and you are in or have been in higher education, please fill out my survey! Help cure my ignorance about other neurodivergent experiences on college campuses!
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What’s left to say (with audio)
Climate grief and raw rage within a realist’s view of the status quo
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This would be hilarious if it weren’t real, or why I can’t stand economists
The reality of our economic situation is terrible. Why can’t economists see it?
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Neuro-Mask Off: Consciously Forgetting How to Mask
On what it means (for me) to stop ‘masking’ as a neurodivergent person.
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I Must Be Confused, or How to read a pie chart: Water Edition
Is it you or is it the systems: water edition.
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Anyone for Lysistrata? Or, Towards a sex-strike for abortion rights, via Aristophanes’ Comedy
Proposing a sex strike for women’s rights, esp. reproductive care, following Aristophanes’ model, Lysistrata
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Is It You or Is It The Systems?
An intervention: stop blaming yourself for systemic problems! Instead let’s remake the systems together!
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On Bridges and Trains, or Legitimate Anxiety in the Anthropocene
A metaphor for understanding our times and toward recognizing our climate anxiety and even grief as legitimate expressions of emotion in the face of an unprecedented global destabilization brought about by the last 200 years of the ultra wealthy destroying our planet for their profits.
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Demonizing Oligarchs Won’t Win Elections
Let’s be clear: the times when progressive actions could circumvent the legislature have now ended. In the face of persistent obstructionism by republicans elected to Congress, Obama turned to executive actions and he did what he could with what he had. (For the record, it has not escaped my memory that Donny with the Combover…
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 