February 2012
10 posts
“Boys, the patriarchy is coming for you, too:
“This taste of a future in...”
– I Spent a Year Watching Rom-Coms and This Is the Crap I Learned
On diversity and the helping professions
This is certainly representative of the textbooks and other resources I’ve had in my counseling classes including my “Counseling Multicultural Populations” class.
But how are social workers of color supposed to see themselves reflected in the profession at all, if all our textbooks and courses operate from a traditional “diversity” model in which White people are the...
Don't trust corporations to define your reality...
Despite the fact that the American Diabetes Association tells us that most overweight people will never get diabetes, the concepts of obesity and diabetes have been so conflated that the term “diabesity” has come into vogue. Except it’s not by crazy random happenstance – the term “diabesity” was trademarked by a group called Shape Up America. According to their website, they are supposed to be...
“I’m always sad when I see fat people posting cartoons on Facebook or Twitter...”
– Wrong Thing Opposite Direction « Dances With Fat
“It doesn’t matter if you’re addicted to Telemundo or counting the number of cars...”
– The Tao of Ru - WWW.THEDAILY.COM