As a way of helping the Eastern Shore Sanctuary get some publicity in the midst of our more expensive than anticipated relocation, Mickey Z wrote up an interview with me for OpEd News. It covers trauma and recovery, rooster rehabilitation, the social construction of gender by way of animals, and the origins of the sanctuary. [...]
Violence is nonsense. While people often deploy violence for rational purposes, violence itself is the opposite of sense.
Every abused child and battered woman knows this. You’re arguing with your parent or partner, pressing your point, trying to make yourself understood, working to reach agreement. Then — slam! — comes the slap or the kick [...]
The blogger known as umkahlil has posted an article entitled The Psychosocial Causes of the Palestinian Factional War by Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme in Palestine.
In the article, Dr. El-Sarraj seeks to identify the causes of the differences between the first intifada (uprising) of 1987-1991, which “was characterized by an [...]
