DON'T EVER GIVE UP
Trans kids in the US were seeking treatment decades before today’s political battles over access to health care ‘Boy Wearing a Wig,’ Wilhelm von Gloeden (1900). Wikimedia Commons Jules Gill-Peterson, University of Pittsburgh In 1942, a 17-year-old transgender girl named Lane visited a doctor in her Missouri hometown with her parents. Lane had known that […]
Ending food insecurity in Native communities means restoring land rights, handing back control (To stay on this page, right click on links to open in a new tab.) By The Conversation Handouts from food banks are no substitute for self-sufficiency. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, Oklahoma State University For Indigenous […]
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Aiding Her Dying Husband, a Geriatrician Learns the Emotional and Physical Toll of Caregiving Judith Graham This story also ran on The Washington Post. It can be republished for free. May 18, 2021 The loss of a husband. The death of a sister. Taking in an elderly mother with dementia. This has been a […]
We do not normally comment on certain things unless they are, if we think, of vital importance to provide information, and this is one (no, we are not getting paid). Wether you suffer from mental illness, (on meds or not), or do not, you should see this; your family should see this; your friends […]
The Making of Reluctant Activists: A Police Shooting in a Hospital Forces One Family to Rethink American Justice Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News May 10, 2021 The beer bottle that cracked over Christian Pean’s head unleashed rivulets of blood that ran down his face and seeped into the soil in which Harold and Paloma […]
‘I Just Feel Like Myself’: A Nonbinary Child In Their Own Words Martha Bebinger, WBUR It’s 7:30 a.m. on a school day. Two parents are racing to get their three young children dressed, fed, packed for the day, into coats and out the door when 6-year-old Hallel runs downstairs, crying. Ari, Hallel’s father, […]
When love conquers all By Kiera Elliot-Pickett Callala Bay, New South Wales – Lesbian couple, Gabby & Irene, have both separately experienced mental health battles, the winning battle was finding each other. Gabby, a Transgender Woman, age 45, knew who she was at the ripe age of 12-years-old. Mentally working through the memories of being […]
Christina Ha: The Blind Cook Who Turned Master Chef (NewsUSA) If you watched season three of Fox TV’s reality cooking show “MasterChef,” you remember the big smile that lit up Christine Ha’s face every time she impressed the judges with her bold flavors—and especially when her three-course meal of Vietnamese comfort food won Ha the […]
Healing Veterans and Helping the Environment Go Hand-in-Hand (StatePoint) What does Earth Day have to do with veterans suffering from psychological trauma brought about by their combat experience? A lot, actually. That is because one organization, Help Heal Veterans (Heal Vets), is busy delivering thousands of arts-and-crafts therapy kits to veterans each month, and most […]