Tag: nonfiction

• What I Learned: No Bootstraps When You’re Barefoot

  

  What I Learned from No Bootstraps When You’re Barefoot by Wes Hall You can’t expect someone to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” when they have no resources or opportunities. It is up to those who “make it” to open a path to where they are for those who come after them. That is how…

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  February 6, 2023

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• What I Learned: Easy Beauty A Memoir

  

  What I Learned from reading Easy Beauty A Memoir by Chloe Cooper Jones Having a disability does not make someone less of a person. People who are disabled, whether from birth or through illness/accident, still deserve respect as individual people and desire autonomy just like individual people. People who are disabled are not just disabled.…

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  January 2, 2023

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• What I Learned: I’m Glad My Mom Died

  

  What I Learned from reading I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy: Child performers are graded as good or bad depending on their ability to obey directors/handlers/producers/etc. and be who they want them to be: perfect. Which hampers their ability to voice their needs and self-actualize. Fame can be extremely dehumanizing.

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  October 23, 2022

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