LGBT Rights

As of the publishing of this article, 430 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been proposed in the United States in just 2023. In graduate school, most of us are insulated from political policies; however, when these policies affect our civil liberties and rights, how should therapists approach them? …

Sociological meanderings towards collective well-being. — I was reading a book the other day and the author was talking about something she calls “speck syndrome,” which is basically how an individual human makes sense of their relationship to historical time. I also recently read Oliver Burkeman’s book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. Burkeman reminds…

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Al Jazeera, ²CNN, ³New York Times, ⁴BBC News, ⁵Ndtv and ⁶Vox. Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday passed a bill that criminalizes identifying as LGBTQ+ and proposes punishments for homosexual relationships. ¹ The bill — which now goes to Pres…

I wrote a response to an article that is (currently) no longer available on medium, as “this post is under investigation or was found in violation of the Medium Rules.” (and no… I didn’t report it). There was a reaction of the article’s author (who blocked me afterwards and deleted…

Major LGBTQ news from the U.S. and the world, all in one place (though we may have missed some). January Amber McLaughlin becomes first trans person executed in the U.S. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs extends protections to LGBTQ+ state employees and contractors Three percent in England and Wales identify as…

We live in fractious times. Positions have become polarised: everything is one thing or another, this or that, black or white. Nuance is now our enemy, and grey areas have ceased to exist. We are entrenched in our beliefs, so immovably committed to our rightness that even the most unstoppable…