Rachel Thompson

Author: BROKEN PIECES, BROKEN PLACES, 30-DAY BOOK MARKETING CHALLENGE. Founder #SexAbuseChat #MondayBlogs #NaNoProMo @BadRedheadMedia http://BadRedheadMedia.com

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From What It’s Like to Be A Woman On the Internet by Chloe Condon

and I a…fied to work in tech. Over the last three years, I have learned to brush it off and I almost always “never read the comments” if I know they’re negative (in fact, I have a necklace and pin of the mantra). But these things add up.

From What It’s Like to Be A Woman On the Internet by Chloe Condon

…essages on Twitter/LinkedIn/Instagram/etc. with messages like “hi”, “nice smile you got there”, and “your beautiful” (I usually respond “ *you’re ”, on that last one), and have even stumbled upon entire forum posts about me and how as a woman with a non-traditional b…

From What It’s Like to Be A Woman On the Internet by Chloe Condon

…hile the internet can be awful and insane sometimes, there are truly good people out there as well. The amount of folks, many complete strangers, who helped do all this detective work, commented words of support, and DMed me to check-in on my personal safety and mental health has been amazing and I am thankful. I gained about 5k followers in 2 days, only 2 of which said not-so-nice things. Not a bad average f…

From What It’s Like to Be A Woman On the Internet by Chloe Condon

Seriously, watch this film if you haven’t already.

From From Tolstoy’s Pen to Mandela’s Heart: What Matters Most This Christmas by Andrew D. Kaufman, Ph.D.

What Mandela took from Tolstoy’s masterpiece, and what we can surely learn from it in our own troubled times — is how to hold on to fierce idealism in a broken world.

From I Am Not Responsible For Your Happiness by Rachel Clements

Because I am not responsible for not meeting expectations I did not set.

From Teaching Resilience Through Russian Literature by Andrew D. Kaufman, Ph.D.

…for a fully engaged life — one lived with our “pores wide open,” as Lisa aptly put it in her essay. To see reality for what it is, and yet to still have the courage to hold on to one’s ideals; to be thwarted in your efforts to make a difference in the world and yet to still believe in the possibility of social change and to work toward it: That is the message of human resilience that recurs throughout the works of the great Russian writers.

From Teaching Resilience Through Russian Literature by Andrew D. Kaufman, Ph.D.

That’s a hard lesson for a college student to learn. Like other students in Books Behind Bars, Lisa gained a deep, personal knowledge of just how difficult and deeply rooted the problem of youth incarceration is in our country, and why so many people both within and outside of the system have despaired of the possibility of finding any solution to it.

From Teaching Resilience Through Russian Literature by Andrew D. Kaufman, Ph.D.

…ers a tempting escape from the hard business of living and leading. But they weren’t Lisa’s answer. Her answer — the right one, in my view — was to feel deeply the frustration that comes with trying and, in her estimation failing, to affect positive change in the world, and then recommitting to doing just that.