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Latina Equal Pay Day – 20 Nov 2019

Latina Equal Pay Day – 20 Nov 2019

November 20th, 2019 marks the unfairness of the pay gap and how far into 2019 it takes a Latina to make what a white, non-Hispanic male earned in 2018. There are pay gaps between white non-Latino men and women of all backgrounds, but of all women in the U.S. Latinas...

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Birth…Pain…Death

Birth…Pain…Death

Talked to my therapist last night and reviewed that people's main response to danger is to go into a state of shock because shock reduces pain. Whether it's physical pain or the emotional pain of being yelled at by a boss or fearing an important relationship is about...

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Kat Jernigan Pottery (Talkin’ ‘Bout Nipples)

Kat Jernigan Pottery (Talkin’ ‘Bout Nipples)

At the annual Glenwood Arts Fest yesterday, I could not resist purchasing this mug. It sat among a table full of pottery, with several items that had ersatz testicles or penises. After feeling my usual weariness of more phallic imagery and wondering why we can't have...

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Grieving My Sweet Tooth

Grieving My Sweet Tooth

Previous post on food/fatness: Fatness - let's review Read my full weight & health journey by using desktop view and scrolling down on the right to the section called Fat? Me, too. My physical and emotional dependence on processed sugar has caused me decades of...

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Fatness – Let’s Review

My dad and me, June 2018 I was pretty big Previous post on fatness: Get thinner without losing weight To each post that's about weight I've put links that lead you through those posts. This lets you read the story of my weight like a book (with photos. I dislike blogs...

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Get Thinner without Losing Weight

Get Thinner without Losing Weight

Previous post on weight & health:  Doing depression right  I've been eating very healthfully for five weeks. I'm happy to fit into my size 2XL shirts (down from my 3XL shirts), to be able to wear my rings again, and to hear my friends say I look slimmer. But the...

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Doing Depression Right

Previous post on weight & health: No change Working with an NRT practitioner since 2016 has taught me that there are endless ways our health can be messed up.  We develop physical problems and/or inherit them from our parents, grandparents and ancestral line. We...

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No Change

No Change

Previous post on weight & health: I'm going for effortless weight loss  No change. No change at all...discouragement..disgust...I'm the fattest I've ever been. Blah, blah, blah. (But wait -- things did change after I posted this! Read this!)

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Please, American White Women

Please, American White Women

The open letter technique is a clichéd way to address a challenging topic and when I see a writer begin with "Dear Democratic Party" or "Dear President Trump" I think, "If you really want to address those people, why post your letter here?" But I'm doing it because...

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#10Year Damn Challenge

#10Year Damn Challenge

So there's another asinine challenge going around and way too many people are participating. This one is particularly cruel because only very young people can do it with dignity. It's the #10YearChallenge and what you do is post a photo of yourself from ten years ago...

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I’m Going for Effortless Weight Loss

I’m Going for Effortless Weight Loss

This post follows up on my recent posts about wanting to be less fat: How do I stop the pain and Waiting for weight to wane. Since I became fat, I've known that losing this fat will not happen with dieting or eating in any way that I can't sustain for the rest of my...

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“I’m sorry I tried to kill myself”

“I’m sorry I tried to kill myself”

When someone tries to end their life, but it doesn't work and they end up in the hospital, one thing they often say is "I'm sorry." But is that really necessary? What are they apologizing for? Having a mind distorted by mental illness? Being a screw-up? If we...

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