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The Destructive Silence Surrounding Sexual Abuse
According to a 2014 World Health Organization Report, and data from one hundred thirty-three countries representing eighty-eight percent of the world’s population, nearly one in five women were sexually abused in early life. Yet only a third are thought to have...
Kohei Saito’s Argument for Degrowth
Although carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere began rising due to the use of fossil fuels during the Industrial Revolution (mainly coal), nearly half of all fossil fuels were utilized after 1989 when the Cold War ended. It’s staggering to think that in a mere 34...
Where have all the readers gone?
Not that it comes as a surprise, but like me, over 4.7 million Goodreads members plan to read a lot this year – on average, 40 books. Unfortunately, Goodreads isn’t representative of the US population. According to a poll conducted by David Montgomery of...
Happy New Year! I hope yours is off to a great start.
I am a person of new year resolutions. I treat the new year as an opportunity to remind myself of the worthiness of my goals and to resuscitate good habits that have fallen away. This year, I recommit to reading a book each week, a practice I started after finishing...
laura k. kerr, phd
Mental Health Scholar & Author
What is life? It is the flash of the firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is in the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
— Crowfoot, Blackfoot Warrior (1830-1890)