Do you know what it’s like to have that fear so frequently realized?

how to maintain passengers’ comfort as seats endlessly shrink

top caring about what other people think.”

right in my asshole

I’ve also been practicing gratitude and positivity

Just suck it up and do it

I really needed was your unsolicited shared wisdom about how to cure my depression

think that this matter of law has anything at all to do with the danger of men impersonating women in order to access spaces where they can harm women—that just doesn’t seem like clear thinking

A much simpler tactic, surely, would be for such a predator to disguise himself as a male toilet attendant.

pressure should be put on them to go in any particular direction

splainin

You’re men really”, or stigmatise us as perverts and predators, just the same thing is going on. It’s a raw nerve for us, and angry (and sometimes inexcusably violent) responses are evoked by that kind of hate-speech, because we ourselves have had to battle our way to self-acceptance, in the teeth of our own internalised transphobia.

If we were suffering discrimination?? Trans people are one of the most discriminated-against groups in the world! What have you been reading for three years, if you haven’t noticed that?

thought my own nature as a trans woman was something dark and terrible about me. Your books, Ms Rowling, were one part of what helped me to come to terms with mysel

Remus,” I would think, in the days when I was still trying to hide my own true nature, “I know exactly how you feel.

So I hope I won’t offend you if I chip in with a few thoughts about the current furore over your recent remarks

have been gravely disappointed

The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation.

trust that this analogy speaks to you deeply. And I hope that, just as I had to work up the courage to write and send this letter, you also work up the courage to do what is right.

Is the presentation itself being framed as an act of conciliation

Our silence encourages our children to continue the oppressors’

This will create indifference in them as they grow up and learn (not in school) the true story

this can be a very sensitive issue”

that the fascist and imperialistic German mindset of the 20th century is not dangerous enough to teach against

Adolf Hitler is recorded to have used as a model for his own oppression of Jewish people.

if a school project about Jewish people were to culminate in an assignment where German children were instructed to come to school dressed as Jewish people, in a purported celebration of Jewish history and culture

participants. Thus, theygain a clearer metacognitive understanding of themselvesas writers and participants through their audience members’feedback

hey are more highly engaged than they are in their schoolstudies or offline w

embedded, authentic audience. In examiningsociocultural theories of motivation and writing, one differ-ence that becomes immediately clear is that the mechanismsand results are much more amorphous, focusing on writingas an act of creating, sharing meaning, and building identityin relation to other readers and writers

uthentic tasks motivate students to engagemore deeply with their work because they can see the im-portance of the tasks as well as their potential for transfer oflearning beyond the classroom.

n other words, audience as an abstractconcept (“writing for readers”) helps the writer to internallyframe her individual thoughts, intuitions, and plans about thewritin

Thus, althoughsociocultural theory provides an important critical view ofliteracies, as well as images for out-of-school contexts whereinstructors have more leeway to design environments in au-thentic ways, having students act as audience members foreach other may be a difficult proposition for most teachers inthe current school system

The audience is implied, in other words, by thepresence of a social group

Expert writers, here, become experts not only by learningthe genres and conventions appropriate to their area of ex-pertise but also by interacting socially with a specific writingcommunity and taking on its Discourse of situated practicesand specific ways of thinking, talking, writing, acting, believ-ing, and being

Writing, then, from this perspective, is not a matter ofremembering or internal processing according to complexgenre schemata. It is, rather, always interpretive and alwaysintertwined with the writer’s language community, social po-sition, values, and actions in the world.

audience is actually equivalent to the broader act ofchoosing a situation—a “social institution and function thatthe discourse serves

It maybe more productive, however, for teachers to treat this newavailability of wide audiences as a potentially motivationalpedagogical opening. Giving

In thissense, the audience functions as a complex conversationalpartner; a listener with whom the speaker is attempting tocommunicate (Gibson, 1950); or, when readers are waitingfor the next installment of a story or argument, a source ofmotivation to keep writing.

Seen in thisway, electronic media not only democratize publication andcontent creation (Gee, 2003; Jenkins, 2006; Shaffer, Squire,Halverson, & Gee, 2005) but also make it possible for writ-ers to speak with, ask questions of, and be influenced by anaudience of readers.

And asadvice seekers ourselves, these findings pose important implica-tions regarding whom we come to rely on for the best possiblerecommendations.

but they may be unable to “backtrack”in thinking about others.

insensitivity to one’s own desensitization should lead to acorresponding misunderstanding of others’ novel reactions

people experienceadditional exposure to stimuli, their emotional reactions tend tochange, typically in the direction of desensitization

the current article, however, weshow that overexperienced individuals may be in a worse positionto do so.

Personal exposure thus helps close the “empathygaps” that arise when people lack insight into others’ “hot” emo-tional states

you never really understand a person until youconsider things from his point of view—until you climb into hisskin and walk around in it”

Research demonstrates that this type of collaboration and empathy also delivers a deep level of satisfaction and happiness to kids

This system fosters collaboration, teamwork, and respect.

It has yielded positive results, and more than 98 percent of teachers say they would recommend it to other institutions.

learning to better understand others

humans aren’t as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others

insurance

Should members get a narrower network of medical providers and guaranteed wage hikes? Or should they keep access to all Boston hospitals, but give up raises for 2 ½ years to keep the health plan from going bankrupt?

The same thing is happening in healthcare

Dignity Health

predatory pricing practices

This insurance has been a godsend,” said

labor union representing the city’s hotel workers offers its members health coverage with no deductible and family premiums just a tenth of the U.S. average.

partners and had a lot of warm feelings for the place, but the reason that I really came back was that I thought Morrison Cohen had a greater advantage than all of the larger firms

or boutique means being confined to a niche practice area or one type of client

work they find rewarding

Direct contact with clients

background, you feel financially stable, then you have the luxury of really caring about the work you do

were the least likely to say meaning was most important and were most likely to cite pay as the most important factor in happiness at work

up with pricing strategies. Their mean annual wage, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: $129,870

Machine operators set up and operate heavy machinery. CareerBliss says the average salary is $30,000

Program managers oversee information technology projects and programs, coordinating multiple teams. CareerBliss lists an average salary of $91,000.

l wage is $79,00

but that happiness can itself help to shape job market outcomes, productivity, and even firm performance

while jobs that involve risks to health and safety are generally associated with lower levels of wellbeing

Norway and Iceland

High levels of unemployment typically heighten people’s sense of job insecurity, and negatively affect the happiness even of those who are still in employment

region of the world that is being considered as well as which measure of subjective wellbeing is under consideration

people working blue-collar jobs report lower levels of overall happiness in every region around the world

People taking up their own leadership concerning happiness at work and an organisation facilitating this can become a positive spiral which generates a lot of positive energy

Its about how you feel and how you evaluate your own happiness (at work).

forced positivity (think about the ever smiling stewards on airlines) can lead to a strong increase in stress and unhappiness at work.

General changes within the organizational structure or culture are important but this is always seen from the perspective of the individual employe

Healthier (they take less sick leave)

satisfaction and productivity for ages

This is the zombies’ world, and we just live in it. But we can live better.

Zombie love, however, is always communal

This is our collective fear projection: that we will be consumed.

The principal downside to any zombie attack is that the zombies will never stop coming; the principal downside to life is that you will be never be finished with whatever it is you do.

he historic equation E = mc2, by its unexpected simplicity, almost embodies the pure idea of the key, bare, linear, made of one metal, opening with a wholly magical ease a door which had resisted the desperate efforts of centuries

euphoric security

aradoxically, the more the genius of the man was materialized under the guise of his brain, the more the product of his inventiveness came to acquire a magical dimension, and gave a new incarnation to the old esoteric image of a science entirely contained in a few letters

lexible working conditions, for example, and affordable housing, and more public green space.

Then the path was bulldozed to make room for luxury condos.

hanks to wealth inequality and wage stagnation and rising housing and child-care costs and student loans and all the rest, we’re the first generation to do worse than our parents

The only thing getting me through my 30s is a cranky, agoraphobic chihuahua named Midge

pumpkin spice brigade

basic” means is not the same way black people have been using it for decades

o consume and perform online in a basic way is thus to reflect a highly American, capitalist upbringing. Basic girls love the things they do because nearly every part of American commercial media has told them that they should.

our new fall boots standing atop crunchy-looking leaves or a selfie featuring a festive dark lip color, it adds to the autumnal aesthetic.

declaration of potential independence.

e build rhetorical baffles around our lives to keep the crowding out, only to find that we have let nobody we love in.

Sex and the City” to sex and the city; they are not yet quite the same

All are devices of perpetually suspended communication

t was trains and telegrams.

productive, but everybody knows that busyness and productivity have a dubious, arm’s-length relationship. Most of our struggle in New York, in fact, is to be less busy in order to do more work.

Why are New Yorkers always bumping into Charlie Ravioli and grabbing lunch,

Most under-sevens (sixty-three per cent, to be scientific) have an invisible friend, and children create their imaginary playmates not out of trauma but out of a serene sense of the possibilities of fiction

was concerned, though, that Charlie Ravioli might also be the sign of some “trauma,” some loneliness in Olivia’s life reflected in imaginary form.

There’s no such thing as magic, Taffy. I shook my head at the impossibility ofit all, and sitting here writing this, I still do.

nd I said, ‘‘You don’t understandbecause you’re skinny,’’ and on and on forever.

f we couldn’t stay on this, could we stay on anything? Whatif the flaw wasn’t in us but in the system?

Society doesn’tnormally change the words for things unless we’re fundamentally uncomfortable with the concepts beneath them

Fat-acceptance andbody-positivity activists began posting pictures of themselves on Instagram

to not think of fat people as lazy; to not deny them medical care; to not excludethem from their basic rights.

It was bad to be fat, and it was good to be thin, and fat people wanted tobe thin, and thin people wanted to help them get there

an attempt at radical honesty