Do you want to ask probing intellectual questions while also getting along with those who disagree with you?
Andrea Lynn Lewis has a lot of practice with this balancing act. She shares her thoughts on echo chambers, brittle relationships, and striving to live up to her ideal.
To reach those who need it, it would be useful to have a neutral, descriptive synonym for the word “gifted.” Here’s my suggestion.
Do you want to ask probing intellectual questions while also getting along with those who disagree with you?
Andrea Lynn Lewis has a lot of practice with this balancing act. She shares her thoughts on echo chambers, brittle relationships, and striving to live up to her ideal.
To reach those who need it, it would be useful to have a neutral, descriptive synonym for the word “gifted.” Here’s my suggestion.
What happens when you think you're on a hero's journey, but end up on the wrong path? In this episode, co-host Laura describes her experience of medical gender transition and detransition as she realizes the path to her authentic self lies far beyond the realm of gender.
We dive deep into the factors led to her decision to transition and her process of detransition and radical self-acceptance. We also discuss the role of socialization on young people's identities and contemplate the impact of trauma, eating disorders, isolation, and gender nonconformity, questioning the rationale and effectiveness of medical gender intervention to treat the human condition.
Please note that we may discuss sensitive topics. If any cause you distress, please consult a trained mental health practitioner.
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Somatic awareness coach Ilana Grostern explains how she healed the artificial split between her mind and her body to tap into a previously neglected source of knowledge.
How should we think about genetic inequity in social and educational policy? Rick Heller reviews three recent books on the subject with an eye to making society fair where inborn endowment is not.
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Fantasy novelist Karen Nilsen reflects on how good parenting—and the emotional honesty of stories like Hans Christian Andersen’s—shielded her from her grandmother’s pathological narcissism.
But are children today getting the same preparation? Or are our mermaids too watered down?
There’s an easy answer and a much harder one.
We’ll give you the quick and easy explanation of Dabrowski’s idea of positive maladjustment. Then we’ll talk about all that goes into truly learning to answer this question.
More and more of us are thinking of trying self-employment. Freelancer Morgan Grace Milburn debunks the simplistic narratives about this path to help you figure out if you really should make the leap.
When a quirky kid goes online to ask whether she might be trans, the algorithms aren’t going to give her any alternatives to consider. That’s a problem that this magazine’s mission demands that we address.
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A new, moderate organization offers a new take on gender, zooming in on neurodivergence, the need for role models, and the good that outliers do in the world.
Katherine knew she was uncommon. When she turned to the Internet to find people like her, they told her that was because a personality like hers did not belong in a female body.
Then she happened upon an alternative perspective—one that her fellow uncommon women should have been making clearer to her all along.
Jessie Mannisto
Ilana Grostern
Rick Heller
Karen Nilsen
Morgan Grace Milburn
Katherine Burnham