Judi Heppner

My kid is going camping. I try to be helpful when I can.

Qualitative researchers when they see statistics

Grabbed @amyalkon ‘s book for reading while with kid in ER. Good and bad to know that much of medicine is not evidence-based. Yikes.

Evergreen tweet. Reposting as needed

I am not "white people." I feel absolutely zero loyalty towards those who share my skin tone, and I feel no responsibility for what horrors those with my skin tone have committed, now or in the past. Neither "white solidarity" nor "white guilt" are part of my worldview.

Amazing how often "let people be who they want to be" translates as "let men do whatever they like"

In twenty years, a young girl will stumble across this article. She’ll be so confused, she’ll have to ask her parents why men were allowed to compete with women. “We believed he was a woman,” they’ll say. “But why?” “Because that’s what they told us to believe.” “Who told you?”…

Lessons include: *defeating hunchbacks in battle *marrying *annulling weddings *remarrying *executing wives *more marrying *breaking with Roman Catholic church *dissolution of monasteries *remarrying multiple times *defeating armadas

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Abortion is one of those issues in which the interests of 2 human beings intersect, and Stock, in her typical way of looking fully at the ethics, does not shirk away from seeing the interests of the child. @secularprolife this will be of interest to you.

How will *just talking* in therapy help me get better? “Give sorrow words” —psychoanalyst William Shakespeare (Macbeth) 👉 Words are powerful containers of emotion. The process of putting thoughts and feelings into words *transforms* them 👉It brings thought and feelings into…

I read this and think about a culture that wants kids to discover “who they really are.” There is no pure essence of me. Everything I am is in relationship to other things, other people. There are many choices I can make and many identities I can form.

We can’t be more woman or less woman, more man or less man. We simply are. Gender criticism is about critically important examining the very concept of gender. Often when we dig down, it’s nothing more than enacting stereotypes. I rejected those stereotypes in the 80s.

We cannot afford to lose ideas of merit. It is healthy to link our self-esteem to effort. We can do this without completely losing the idea of the worth of human life for simply being.