Show Notes This week we share our plans for taking care of ourselves during election day as well as some communication advice around hard subjects. We also talk about a completely bananas book we’ve both recently read. Mentioned on the show: Find the full show notes and official transcript on our website: eedapod.com Become a […]
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Show Notes This week we chat about how we can prepare for the next few months. The end of the year can be difficult and complicated for some of us, and anxiety-inducing for most of us. The time change, the election, the holidays, and winter are creeping up on us quickly so we offer some
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Show Notes This week we chat about how it is impossible to be fully ethical consumers under capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy. These systems are actually dependent on unethical practices. Folks on the left can absolutely tie ourselves in knots trying to make every single choice be “the right one.” We also talk about
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Show Notes This week we chat about some of the reasons it can be so hard to ask for what we want. We talk about the importance of asking for what you want and even offer some ideas on how to get better at asking for what you want. Mentioned on the show: Find the
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Show Notes This week talk about time anxiety, specifically in the ways we’ve been seeing it show up in our own lives. There are many ways that time anxiety can show up and we discuss the stress of feeling like there’s never enough time to do what we want to do, delaying joy in order
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Show Notes This week we share a mélange, a medley, a menagerie, a veritable smorgasbord of some of our favorite advice. Some of it is great advice and some of the advice is a bit dubious and your mileage may vary! Mentioned on the show: Find the full show notes and official transcript on our
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Show Notes Many of our fellow left-leaning folks have been shouting phrases like, “Black women will save us” and “Listen to Black women.” In today’s show, we dig in and discuss some of the many issues of these well-intended phrases. We also talk about the unique way in which we aim to disrupt self-help in
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Show Notes It’s an election year and these internet streets are wild! This week, we give a 101 on misinformation and disinformation. We define the terms and talk about ways we each can identify misinformation and disinformation. We also offer many resources to further learn how to identify misinformation and disinformation and how to talk
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Show Notes Patricia and Nicole talk about the quickening descent forcing us further into conservatism in the United States and beyond and some advice on what we can all do right now to feel less hopeless. This episode is related to EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Iss 14: Some Ideas on What To Do Now Mentioned
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Show Notes Patricia and Nicole offer some coming out advice for folks who are queer and haven’t yet shared it (and want to). We share some of our own coming out process and talk about what decisions we made and why. We also talk about what was useful and what things went a little sideways
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