Kitchen drawers and laundry baskets: On metaphors and data
“Metaphorical thinking half discovers and half invents the world it describes."
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The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
"Perfectionism is a phenomenon, not a disorder."
Terminology Won't Save Us
Rethinking the trans competence training.
We Need to Talk About Health "McEquity"
Some practices appear nourishing but offer nothing of substance.
Tribute: Pat Parker 1944-1989
Although mostly known as a Black lesbian feminist poet and confidante of Audre Lorde, Parker also served as the medical coordinator and executive director of the Oakland Feminist Women’s Health Center during a time of significant growth for this organization.
As someone who is both a creative writer and
Tribute: Michael Dillon (Lobsang Jivaka), 1915-1962
Over the course of his life, he was a doctor, a seaman, an author, a Buddhist monk, and the first known trans man to receive a phalloplasty.
Tribute: Iris de la Cruz, 1954-1991
AIDS activist who focused on the needs of women living with HIV/AIDS and wrote a real talk column for the People With AIDS Newsline called ‘KOOL AIDS WITH ICE.’
(Note: Although it’s my understanding that De La Cruz was cisgender and heterosexual, the history of AIDS activism is