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Anna Varinsky

Anna Varinsky

Status:Recovering from Childhood Narcissistic Abuse

Did you grow up with the awareness that you were always in trouble? No matter what you did or didn’t do, your parents communicated…

3 min readNov 6, 2022

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Status:Recovering from Childhood Narcissistic Abuse

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Social Justice Cafe

The Just World Fallacy and Glocks

So here we go again. Another horrific shooting. Children murdered. Families devastated. People online and off turning to one another…

2 min readMay 25, 2022

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The Just World Fallacy and Glocks

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Anna Varinsky

False Hierarchies That Prevent Humanism From Scaling

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling…

3 min readMay 14, 2022

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False Hierarchies That Prevent Humanism From Scaling

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Social Justice Cafe

Daily Gratitude: an Antidote to Stealth Dissatisfaction

Many of us feel an understandable general despair with the state of the world today. It is difficult to keep fighting for the same social…

4 min readMay 6, 2022

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Daily Gratitude: an Antidote to Stealth Dissatisfaction

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Social Justice Cafe

Invisible Illness : My Journey from Shame to Healing

There is something about invisible illness that prompts many people to resort to shaming. If you have an invisible illness or like me, a…

3 min readApr 14, 2022

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Invisible Illness : My Journey from Shame to Healing

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We Are Our Own Saviors

The German writer, Nietzsche, said “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” What…

4 min readNov 2, 2021

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We Are Our Own Saviors

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Social Justice Cafe

Let’s Get Started

Over these past several years beginning with Trump’s election in 2016 many of us who are well meaning and white have been shocked by the…

5 min readOct 17, 2021

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Let’s Get Started

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Anna Varinsky

A summary of White Fragility

DiAngelo, a white sociologist, spent decades leading diversity sessions at companies large and small. Invariably during these sessions many…

3 min readOct 8, 2021

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Anna Varinsky

Anna Varinsky

I write about social justice, , the arts, psychology, neuroscience, and tech, all through the lens of secular humanism and existentialism.

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