Systemic Racism Explained
Reading Time: < 1 minute In case you have some friends that still don’t understand systemic racism 😉 (via act.tv)
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Month: April 2019
About that Boyfriend I Could Take Out in Public
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you’re looking around your life baffled by why someone else is showing up as a class one asshole, you probably don’t need to look any further than yourself for the explanation. Your self-worth is sub-par, probably really subpar. You’ve got work on you to do.
You can’t change anyone else. You can only change you.
Work on yourself.
Love on yourself.
Be with yourself tenderly.
Fast Company: This platform wants to fix the disturbing lack of data on police violence
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the U.S., police brutality is a known problem: all-too-numerous headlines in recent years have detailed the deaths of Philando Castile, Freddie Gray, and Mike Brown, among many others. But recent research suggests that police kill around three people per day in the U.S., and those people are disproportionately black men. Those findings, though, still fail to account for other violence and verbal and physical abuse people face at the hands of police.
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3 Stories You Should Read 4/22/2019: Matt Shea, Larry Mitchell Hopkins, LGBTQ Rights
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: The highest court in
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Protester Alaa Salah Brings Global Attention to Sudan
Reading Time: < 1 minute This young woman has become a symbol of hope and resistance in Sudan amid protests against the country’s former president (via NowThis)
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Can we stop saying, ‘She could have been your daughter’?
Reading Time: 6 minutes The approach of this sentiment is to gain empathy or understanding from the other person by encouraging them to imagine that the rape or abuse could have happened to their female family member. People would most likely assume that by using this retort, the person might think ‘Oh gosh, yes, I would hate it if that happened to my own daughter, maybe I need to re-evaluate why I blame women and girls for rape?’
The reality is a little bit murkier than that. The reality is less optimistic and less effective than that.
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Astrology: all is well, and all manner of things will be well
Reading Time: 6 minutes For your own life, ask yourself ‘what do I want to create over the next 24 months?’, plan out the magical and mundane steps you’ll need in order to build a solid foundation for that, and embed the plans into your life in a way that supports your capacity to commit.
Even if you’re not sure what you want to make yet, you can start to embed the habits which support a solid foundation. Think daily meditation, body movement that you like, good relationships with a team of health practitioners and checkups planned out, regular magic practice, a good to-do list management strategy.
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3 Stories You Should Read 4/19/2019: Sarah Huckabee, United Constitutional Patriots, Republicans for the Rule of Law
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Common sense isn’t completely
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NO SPIN ZONE: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chair of the House Intelligence Committee Press Conference
Reading Time: < 1 minute Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is holding a press conference now in the aftermath of the Mueller report release. Attorney General William Barr spoke to the press about the report this morning, hours before it was made available to Congress and the public, but after the White House counsel’s office had been briefed by the Department of Justice, according to the New York Times. Schiff has invited Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify before his committee. ‘After a two year investigation,’ Schiff tweeted today, ‘the public deserves the facts, not Attorney General Barr’s political spin.’
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Permission Granted
Reading Time: 3 minutes So often we want permission to do, be or have something and when we do not get permission (or assume that we will not) we settle for something else. We betray our own soul in an effort to keep from disappointing someone else.
There is no shame in wanting to meet someone else’s expectations. We all do it, it feels good to have someone express that they are happy with our work, or pleased with something we’ve done, or approving of some choice we’ve made. Most of us have had a desire to be acknowledged and validated practically from the time we were born.
But when we meet other people’s expectations at the expense of fulfilling our own dreams and desires we are not truly free. We can become trapped in a web of needing approval and permission.
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