[guest post] The Dharma of Depression
My friend Seth, who has guest-posted here before (read it, it’s awesome), returns to talk about depression and Buddhism. Note: The following is a transcript of a speech given at the weekly College...
View Article[guest post] You Are Not Alone: A Shared Story of Depression
Seth returns again to talk about the response he received to his speech about depression and spirituality. (This is his third guest post. Hmm, maybe he should get a blog already!) A few days back, I...
View Article[guest post] The Tradeoff Between Ambition and Happiness
A fellow blogger has provided me with this guest post about the psychology of ambition and happiness. Enjoy! Imagine there’s a big project at work and you decide to come in on the weekend. The length...
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[guest post] Hurricane Sandy, Climate Reality, Political Absenteeism
In purely economic terms, Hurricane Sandy will cost the United States $20 billion. And although a little less than half of that cash is insured, it cannot come close to accounting for the millions who...
View Article[guest post] We Need To Talk About Incest Survival
[Content note: incest, sexual assault, self-harm, eating disorders] Someone I know and respect asked me to publish this anonymous guest post. -M Mia Fontaine wrote an article in The Atlantic recently...
View Article[guest post] Sorry, You Don’t Own Marriage
My friend Seth, who’s becoming somewhat of a regular around here, returns with some observations about the same-sex marriage “debate” (if you could call it that). I don’t know how many of you reading...
View Article[guest post] Also Known as the Argument from “Gotta Get Laid, Amirite?”
Mitchell of Research to be Done has a fantastic response to my recent post! Let’s talk about street harassment. Actually, since Miri has covered the bases very well in her last post on street...
View Article[guest post] Hello from a Severely Disenchanted Former Democrat
While I’m in DC, here’s a guest post from my friend Andy, who wrote this after he received yet another letter from the Democratic Party asking for donations. To whomever reads this letter: Hello from a...
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[guest post] Dictionary Arguments, and Why They Suck
CaitieCat, a frequent and awesome commenter around here, has a guest postI It’s not news to any activist for any cause that people just love to whip out dictionary definitions as ostensibly...
View Article[guest post] Undigging the Hole: FOFISSAMO
While I continue to recover from what I did to myself to celebrate finishing college, CaitieCat is back with some advice about apologizing. So you’re in a mess. You said something in public that might...
View Article[guest post] Harry Potter and the Fuzzies of Altruism
Here’s a guest post from Robby Bensinger about the psychology of altruism with a little bit of Harry Potter thrown in. Effective Altruists are do-gooders with a special interest in researching the...
View Article[guest post] A Thought Experiment In The Style of Schrödinger
I’m traveling to Columbus, Ohio for the Secular Student Alliance conference, and CaitieCat has written a guest post so that you’re not too bored in my absence! I was thinking about Schrödinger’s...
View Article[guest post] Thoughts on the Assumption of Good Faith
Mitchell of Research to be Done wrote this post after he and I and some other friends had a great discussion about social justice and giving people the benefit of the doubt, and how to adjust our...
View Article[guest post] Japan’s Not Doing Sex! An Intersection of Racism and Sexism
Here’s a guest post from my friend Mike about the recent news stories on Japanese sexuality. I remember as a kid laughing at the clownish stereotypes of characters like Long Duk Dong in “Sixteen...
View Article[guest post] Let’s Not Call People “Illiterate”
Frequent guest poster CaitieCat is back with a short piece about classism and how we call people out. One of the things we’ve been talking a lot about recently in feminist circles is the concept of...
View Article[guest post] Debunking Some Skeptic Myths About Sexual Assault
[Content note: sexual assault] This guest post was written by my friend HJ Hornbeck and discusses a talk on sexual assault given by social psychologist Carol Tavris at The Amazing Meeting (TAM) this...
View Article[guest post] Experiencing Ableism as a Person Who is Blind
One of my readers, Tyler Ensor, wrote this post about the subtle ways in which ableism manifests itself in his life. When I was three years old, I was sick with flu-like symptoms for a week. Following...
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Secular Students Week Guest Post: Tim Kolanko
Continuing Secular Students Week, I’ve got a guest post from Tim Kolanko, a student activist who was able to use the SSA’s support to bring a speaker to raise awareness of intersex issues and medical...
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Secular Students Week Guest Post: Benjamin Karpf
Here’s my last Secular Students Week post! Student activist Benjamin Karpf talks about the importance of building community for secular people–something that we sometimes overlook in favor of the...
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