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Seeking an alternative to Disney princesses, this mom took pictures of her daughter dressed as real life women such as Susan B. Anthony.
by Deona Hooper, MSW The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is the book psychiatrist, clinical social workers, and other mental health professionals use to determine a mental health disorder. The latest edition, DSM V, is scheduled to be released…
Beginning in 1996, Radio Diaries gave tape recorders to teenagers around the country to create audio diaries about their lives. NPR’s All Things Considered aired intimate portraits of five of these teens: Amanda, Juan, Frankie, Josh and Melissa. They’re now in their 30s. Over this past year, the same group has been recording new stories about where life has led them for our series, Teenage Diaries Revisited.
Here’s our first installment: Amanda Brand is gay. Her family is conservative Catholic, and when she was a teenager, her parents were convinced she was only going through a phase. Recently, Amanda sat down with her mother and father in Queens, N.Y., in the same house she grew up in, to revisit her tumultuous teen years.
Teenage Diaries Revisited: A Gay Teen’s Family, ‘Evolved’
Photo: Radio Diaries (left), David Gilkey/NPR
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Who Is Superman
by Daniel Jacob, MSW: Founder of Can You Hear Me? The question came my way the other day, Who is Superman? The context came as a result of walking a path of invincibility, the only problem is that the outcome one usually wants to avoid was being reinforced in the process. Many of us are guilty…
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I get what the author is saying, but I think Spiderman would have been a better metaphor.
Superman almost always acts one mindfully, which is why he’s able to accomplish so much. He rarely reports to the Daily Planet on Superman’s work, allowing Lois Lane opportunity to be the star reporter. Superman devotes himself fully to all his actions, which is what makes him such an effective hero.
In contrast Peter Parker constantly tries to do too many things at once, which almost always gets him into trouble. He sells photos of himself to the Bugle, fails at balancing his work with relationships and superhero-ing. In short, he’s much more like us than the Last Son of Krypton and would have been a better example for this post.
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Re-blog to support Jason Collins, who has become the first openly gay male athlete playing in a major American team sport!
Jason says he wears jersey #98 to honor Matthew Shepard and The Trevor Project (we were founded in 1998).
I will always reblog this photo. P R E A C H
Today is $1T day, commemorating this date last year when accumulated student debt in the United States reached $1 trillion dollars.
To see what we’re up to with our work on student debt, visit itsourinterest.org
Amen
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REBLOG if you want Jinkx Monsoon to be America’s Next Drag Superstar!
What do Social Workers Make?
They make an infertile couple celebrate a lifetime of Mother’s Days and
Father’s Days by helping them adopt a baby no one else wanted.
They make a child fall asleep every night without fear of his father’s
fists.
They make a homeless veteran feel at home in the world.
They make a teenager decide to stop cutting herself.
They make a beaten woman find the courage to leave her abuser for good.
They make a boy with Down syndrome feel like the smartest kid on the
bus.
What do they make?
They make a 10-year-old believe that he is loved and wanted, regardless
of how long he lasts in the next foster home.
They make a teen father count to 10 and leave the room so he won’t shake
his newborn son.
They make a man with schizophrenia see past his demons.
They make a rape victim talk about it for the first time in years.
They make an ex-convict put down the bottle and hold down a job.
What do they make?
They make a dying cancer patient make peace with her past, with her
brief future, with her God.
They make the old man whose wife has Alzheimer’s cherish the good times,
when she still remembered him.
They make forgotten people feel cherished, ugly people feel beautiful,
confused people feel understood, broken people feel whole.
What do they make?
They make more than most people will ever make.
They make a difference.
She was also a social worker.
Jeanette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress (on November 7, 1916) at a time when women lacked suffrage on a national level. While in office she did many things, her efforts included work on the 19th Amendment (ensuring a woman’s right to vote), giving married women citizenship separate from their husbands and legislation on government-sponsored instruction for pregnant and nursing women.
However, she was a passionate pacifist and when she (along with 49 other representatives) voted against the United States’ entry into World War I many believed it meant women were unable to be national leaders and she was not reelected and left Congress at the end of her single term.
That was not the end of her life in politics though, running primarily on an anti-war platform she won reelection to the House in 1940 where she shortly was asked to vote again on whether or not the US should enter a world war. Sticking to her beliefs, despite the majority of American’s outrage over Pearl Harbor, she again voted against war, famously saying, “As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else,” an act that ended her political career.
She continued to advocate pacifism through the rest of her life and even led a march on Washington in her eighties to protest the war in Vietnam. Jeannette Rankin died in 1973 at the age of 93 and will always be remembered for her tireless work for women’s suffrage, her pacifist beliefs and for being a groundbreaking legislator, as both the first woman in Congress and the only person to vote against both world wars.
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