Are any lies kind? Worthy questions in Nancy Johnson’s first-time novel
Nancy Johnson’s first novel raises a worthy question about lies, despite leaving characters unexplored, writes Cathy Chavez in her new “Off the Shelf” book review.
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Category: 2021
Defensiveness: give yourself a break and apologize for real
Even good people need to work on healthy apologies and overcoming defensiveness. Alex Kestrel offers some tips In his new “Starting With You” column on self-investment.
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QC Pride brings award-winning documentary // New tenants fund in Iowa City // Plus More
Read about QC Pride in the Quad Cities, a new tenants fund in Iowa City, GSA Con in Des Moines, new board members for Cedar Rapids’ Pridefest group, and more.
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‘Pray Away’ devastates by showing religion’s leading role in ongoing conversion therapy abuse of LGBTQ+ people
Pray Away is about how conversion therapy is still happening, targeting transgender people within the LGBTQ+ community, and masquerading as religious love. Read Aime Wichtendahl’s review.
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Simplify your search: 10 themed calendars help sort LGBTQ affirming, intersectional events in Illinois, Iowa
Find the events you’re looking for with 10 themed calendars of LGBTQ affirming, intersectional events in Illinois and Iowa.
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Informed consent is beyond sex, all about boundaries, and never forever
How many times have you made little Tommy give Grandma a hug, or scolded him because he...
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Asexuality: the coming out that never ends
Asexuality and its spectrum trigger indifference and confusion among both LGBTQ communities and the “heteronormative.”
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How is the arts world handling COVID and its controversies?
With the image of “Veiled Truth” watching us, Joan Altabe examines how resistance to COVID restrictions has affected the arts world.
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Move more police funds to social services, decriminalize cannabis: top choices to lessen police brutality in new “Break the Binary” poll
Our new “Break the Binary” poll is designed to improve public discourse by countering binary thinking along with its scary step-sibling, triangulation. Read about results of our first pilot poll; participate in the new one.
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Fighting the bullies inside: strategies to stop beating yourself up
We can’t accept constant negative self-talk as normal. We need to decide that it’s a problem to be solved. Self-bullying eats away at us and degrades us. Decreasing negative automatic thoughts, by contrast, has been shown to decrease depression symptoms.
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