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My IEP Gave Me PTSD: A Student's Perspective

Although the IEP meeting had good intentions to help me, it led me down a path of low self esteem and a lot of self doubt.

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5 Ways To Take Your Bathing Suit Off Of The Beach & Into The Streets This Fall

Why should your suit sit in your dresser or closet for half a year and miss out on all of the fun?

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Genre fiction is all about knowing what has been written in the canon previously, what current trends are, what audiences are excited about, and what hasn’t yet been done.

Why Diverse Genre Fiction Is Important, And How To Get It Right

Diverse genre fiction shares a lot in common with diverse literature, in that a lot of the challenges are the same. We still have to ask a lot of questions about who gets to tell what stories, what kinds of books and authors are published, what it means to get it right, and who is on staff at the publishing houses that produce genre fiction.

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6 Books You Should Be Reading In Today's America

Learning is the best thing for us, and the best place to look? The sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.

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This is why I’m done “proving” my identity to the nay-sayers.

I'm Done Trying To "Prove" My Non-Binary Identity

Masculinity always felt like a pair of shoes that didn’t fit quite right.

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image credit: Mariah Aro Sharp @mightymooseart

We Need To Talk About How Childhood Trauma Affects Education

Don’t most kids feel afraid to come home?

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image credit: Mariah Aro Sharp @mightymooseart

We Need To Talk About How Childhood Trauma Affects Education

Don’t most kids feel afraid to come home?

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image credit: Mariah Aro Sharp @mightymooseart

Are Your High-Intensity Emotions The Reason You're Exhausted?

There isn’t a middle-ground here, no ebb and flow of stress, no uncomplicated joy or sorrow in an everyday situation. There is only the most exhausting, most labile of emotive response.

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