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The Quiet Casualties of the Movement for Black Lives

By John Eligon — 2018

There is a quieter reality of activism: the mental and emotional hardship of the work, and the resulting stress and depression that sometimes make it difficult to even get out of bed. Self-care makes a difference.

Read on www.nytimes.com

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Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.

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Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
2021
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Black Futures

“A literary experience unlike any I’ve had in recent memory . . . a blueprint for this moment and the next, for where Black folks have been and where they might be going.

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Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham
2025
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Stephen Porges on the Causes of Distorted Social Engagement

In this clip from his Keynote address at the 2016 Networker Symposium, The Science of Therapeutic Attachment, Stephen Porges explains why the fabric of modern relationships is changing rapidly, due to technology shifting our neurophysiological states.

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Stephen Porges
2016
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Rachel Naomi Remen on NBC News - Teaching Doctors to Listen

Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen created a course for first and second-year medical students called the Healer's Art. She teaches that the best practice of medicine is about connecting with your patient, requires more listening than doing, and is about more than a cure.

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Rachel Naomi Remen
2013
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