With the year coming to an end, I’d like to talk about how nihilism, pessimism, and hopelessness can be tools of oppression. This past year has been filled with tragedies all around the world. As people are made aware of these tragedies, systemic oppressions, and humanitarian crises happening all over the world, many of us […]
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Let Go
For a long time, I’ve been applauded for being able to maintain contact with people from a variety of times in my life that others may no longer continue to maintain contact with. But is this necessarily a good trait? For certain ones of these relationships, my choices were questioned with, “You a good one.” […]
“What About Me?”
If you’re on any kind of social media platform, you’ll probably notice this trend if you scroll through the comments. People will post recipes, for example, and in the comments, there will be at least one person who will ask what they can do if they don’t like the main ingredient. While substitutions are understandable […]