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how can i help you feel loved?

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[a simple line-drawing with handwritten lavender text that reads “how can I help you feel loved? In the center of the page. In the bottom third of the frame, two simply-drawn hands reach toward each other.]

#a wonderful question

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Me As Hell

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#yesssss so excited #the americans

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Nothing About Us Without Us!; haley brown 2016

February has had me step aside from a lot of drawing (and all sorts of) projects to get some other things in line, but now I’m hitting pen to page again and working on the second draft of that zine. Seeing so much great work at the Santa Cruz Zinefest yesterday was such an exciting invitation to get back to work!

[A doodley image with digital color that will serve as the back cover of the zine I’m working on! A graphic banner that reads “Nothing About Us Without Us” centers a wheel, medic-alert asterisk and snake slithering up a giant spoon that anchors the whole collection.]

#haleyyyyyy #disability #disability justice

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#it is me #except 8 years #hedgie #chronic illness

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worse!

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imagine being an adult trying to one-up a 9 year old

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The Problem With ‘The Flash’: Why Doesn’t Flash Hike The Appalachian Trail?

Let’s get one thing out of the way: I think The Flash is an excellent TV series. Showrunners Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg have developed Flash into a unique and stylish character, which is no small feat in a media landscape crowded with superheroes. In some ways, though, the show is still finding its footing, and nowhere is this more true than in its perplexing reluctance to show Flash hiking the Appalachian Trail.

For a series that usually manages to avoid glaring plot holes, this one is a head-scratcher. Surely Flash knows about the Appalachian Trail. Surely he’s heard veterans of the A.T. talk about what a transformative experience it was. So why doesn’t he take the plunge and try it for himself? It makes no sense.

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Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a place called San Bernardino. You’ve never heard of it. You’ve never been to America. But you’ve certainly heard a lot about gun violence in the U.S. It seems like a new mass shooting happens every week. You wonder if you could go there and get stricter gun legislation passed. You’d be a hero to the American people, a problem-solver, a lifesaver. How hard could it be? Maybe there’s a fellowship for high-minded people like you to go to America after college and train as social entrepreneurs. You could start the nonprofit organization that ends mass shootings, maybe even win a humanitarian award by the time you are 30. Sound hopelessly naïve? Maybe even a little deluded? It is. And yet, it’s not much different from how too many Americans think about social change in the “Global South.” If you asked a 22-year-old American about gun control in this country, she would probably tell you that it’s a lot more complicated than taking some workshops on social entrepreneurship and starting a non-profit. She might tell her counterpart from Kampala about the intractable nature of our legislative branch, the long history of gun culture in this country and its passionate defenders, the complexity of mental illness and its treatment. She would perhaps mention the added complication of agitating for change as an outsider. But if you ask that same 22-year-old American about some of the most pressing problems in a place like Uganda — rural hunger or girl’s secondary education or homophobia — she might see them as solvable. Maybe even easily solvable. I’ve begun to think about this trend as the reductive seduction of other people’s problems. It’s not malicious. In many ways, it’s psychologically defensible; we don’t know what we don’t know. If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable. Of course you’d want to apply for prestigious fellowships that mark you as an ambitious altruist among your peers. Of course you’d want to fly on planes to exotic locations with, importantly, exotic problems. There is a whole “industry” set up to nurture these desires and delusions — most notably, the 1.5 million nonprofit organizations registered in the U.S., many of them focused on helping people abroad. In other words, the young American ego doesn’t appear in a vacuum. Its hubris is encouraged through job and internship opportunities, conferences galore, and cultural propaganda — encompassed so fully in the patronizing, dangerously simple phrase “save the world.”

“The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems” by Courtney Martin

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