Personal Writer Biography and Intro to Celtic Riverside 14 Dec 2019 Hello, Reader! Welcome to Celtic Riverside! Feel free to jump around to whatever section interests you - this is not a singular piece that must be consumed in whole or…
#HeForShe… Because (An Open Letter to the Daughter I May Never Meet) [Redux] 17 Jan 201916 Apr 2019 Dear Alice Kathryn, Hey there, Ally Kat. You know, even before I met your mother I had dreams about you. Your mom and I would be laying on a couch…
#HeForShe… Feminism in the World of Disney 25 Jul 201814 Mar 2019 One of the areas that serves as a foundation for gender and race relation discussion is pop culture, and my childhood, like many, involved Disney and Pixar. Today, I want…
Personal… Society Treats Individuals Differently – It Cannot Treat Them Discriminately 30 May 2020 Humans were once hunters and gatherers. If the food became scarce in one region, the humans would have to move to another to feed themselves. This process changed during the…
Personal Exceptional America 29 May 2020 My whole life, I believed that America was number one. That was the saying; not "America is number two." England is number, and China should be, like, eight. - Michael…
Mental Health Tara Reade: A Window Into OCPD 4 May 2020 By now you should be aware of the broad details: former aide Tara Reade credibly accused former Vice President and current Democratic nominee Joe Biden of sexual harassment. The details…
Personal… Love in the Time of Ideology 12 Apr 2020 I never gave much thought to the character of Captain America until Chris Evans brought him to life in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As the character unfolded across several films…
Critical Thought 500 Films to See for Your Isolated Pleasure 20 Mar 2020 Keeping this one fun and simple. As many are facing lockdowns, quarantines, or simply abiding by requests for social distancing, here is a list of 500 films worth seeing to…
Mental Health… Anxiety or COVID? Advice from Someone with Medical Anxiety 20 Mar 2020 One cannot downplay the seriousness of the situation. We have a novel virus spreading like wildfire among our communities right now in addition to all of the normal and other…
Mental Health… A Return to Social Anxiety and OCPD 29 Feb 2020 This should not be an easy piece to write, and it's possible that as I get further into composing it I will feel my usual sense of conflict. One of…
#HeForShe The “Male Gaze” is a Ridiculous Myth 28 Feb 2020 I remember first coming across the concept of the "gaze" in my philosophical studies - the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. Thirty years after Sartre introduced the concept, Laura Mulvey applied…
Social Contract Democracy (as Oppression by Simple Majority) 22 Feb 2020 Of this I am certain, that in a democracy the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppression upon the minority...and that oppression of the minority will extend to far greater…
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