Tag: mental illnesses

What We Talk About When We Talk About “It”

Post author By [E]Coco
Post date Monday, April 11th, 2011
12 Comments on What We Talk About When We Talk About “It”

“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.” -David Foster Wallace

Tags anxieties, concrete evidence, david foster, david foster wallace, depression, depression anxiety, depressions, fragility, heroism, mental health, mental illnesses, mental struggle, probity, taylor mali, walking in circles, women's issues

Op Ed

Another View of Ableism

The Oxford English Dictionary records the first usage of the word ‘ableism’ in 1981. It’s highly probable that disability rights activists have been using this word much longer; many people are surprised to learn that disability rights activism has a history dating to the 1800s, that people with disabilities have been challenging discrimination against us […]

Tags ableism, cognitive disability, disabilities, disability rights, disability rights activists, disability rights movement, dominant class, equality, invisible illnesses, mental illnesses, oxford english dictionary, people with physical disabilities, radical activists, self diagnosis

Politics

The Seriousness of Salmon

Even though I work in politics, I find myself shying away from great spectacles like the State of the Union address. Ever since I got into this business, I find myself focusing on the strangest things. (Who let him on stage in that tie? Who decided that that schmuck should be in the camera shot? […]

Tags flag banner, government money, lower taxes, medicaid patients, mental illnesses, politics, salmon, sotu, State of the Union, state of the union address, strangest things, tea party, time energy