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When the Blueprint Forgets Us
CW: Poverty The search for housing felt like a maze when Faith Owens first began looking for a place to live. She is a single mother living in Indiana on SSDI (Social Security Disability Insurance). She didn’t understand how few paths were available to her and millions of other disabled Americans. In 2020, Apartment List…
The Human Bonds Technology Will Never Replace
CW: Pet Loss Caregiving is a deeply human experience. When someone spends a lot of time with someone, they begin to know who they are and what they need. While people like Marianne Cooper, who is a sociologist at Stanford University, talk about AI being used to help caregivers, the real essence of caregiving is…
Children of Darkness and the Darkness We Still Live In
CW: Mental Illness, Restraint, Death, and Institutionalization Last night, I watched the 1983 documentary Children of Darkness. The documentary was a glimpse into the past. However, parts of it felt painfully and scarily immediate. The documentary takes viewers inside places like Eastern State School, the Elan School in Pennsylvania, Sagamore Children’s Psychiatric Center on Long…
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