Author: tifcohenwrites
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PODCAST – Part 2 – South To America by Imani Perry
Part 2 shares an excerpt from Chapter ‘Pearls Before Swine’ pages 196 – 198. I talk about opportunity you are born into or come into by luck and what you should do with it. Support Black owned bookstore by buying South To America here
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Doomscrolling Letters
My days are quiet. At times, the quiet feels like that moment in a movie where some pivotable realization occurs to the protagonist and the viewer instantly floods with empathy. At other times, I just want to talk to someone. Enter the wild west of social media. I make a conscious effort to not open…
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Scrolling Houses On Zillow With No Moving Plans
This post contains content that may be triggering to some. For more info please click here. The time is 9:48 pm and I’ve come across the most beautiful home at the foot of a mountain in Utah in the curated list RedFin has emailed me. It has exposed brick in the kitchen, wooden beams in…
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Mental Health, Her & Him
I’ve recently been getting a lot of targeted ads for Hers. It’s an online service that allows women to fill out a questionnaire and receive antidepressants and antianxiety medication through the mail. I have so many issues with this. 1. Only women get anxious and depressed? The depiction of only women in these ads contributes…
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PODCAST: South To America by Imani Perry
How are children learning Black History? How should they be? Buy South to America by Imani Perry from a Black Woman Owned bookstore here
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How To Be An Ally
Can we talk about performative allyship for a minute? Social media has made everyone believe they are an activist. Most of them are not. Most are taking less than a second to like or repost something yet keep their mouth shut when someone around them hurls a racist slur. Most are turning away when homophobic…
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PODCAST: Dear Girl by Aija Mayrock
“Dear Mother, I see your fears baked into how you raised me. I see them tremble from your lips as you warn me. I know you are terrified of the world that could swallow me whole. But Mother, you need not fear, because even if I am swallowed up, I will kick until I am…
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Don’t Meet Your Heroes
A perk of living in one of the largest cities in the world is that a lot of other people are there too: people I idolize; people I would never meet in the little Midwest city where I grew up. I was ecstatic to discover an author I had obsessed over for years was making…
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I Didn’t Google The Woman Who Hit Me With Her Car
I live in one of those suburbs that used to be farmland fifteen years ago but now any stretch of undeveloped land is doomed to become rows of track homes. The population is vastly white (89%) with the largest minority group being Asian (9%).* It’s a community of upper middle class families working hard to…
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