Maddie Ketchem is a published poet and author whose work is featured in Indiana’s Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology, and the Genesis, Spring 2017 edition. She attended Indiana University and currently lives in Indianapolis with her fiancé and two cats. If I Count Them I was five. It was during naptime in
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MAN-selection
The first article in the MAN-selection series addresses the harassment single women experience in public. The term public harassment might be used to describe a wide range of intrusive behaviors, thus constituting an intrusive act, which according to Vera-Gray (2016), is “an intentional breaking into or entering without consent.” It
Overpopulation 1: How Many People Can the Earth Support?
Review of the Quartz Aug 18' article “We are exceeding Earth’s carrying capacity. Denying it is suicidal,” by Richard Heinberg — (author and senior fellow with the Post Carbon Institute). Environmental: Read @ Medium Written by: m.wilson Societies Pollute their Environment to the Point of Collapse According to Heinberg, the earth has a biological “carrying
“Intractable Conflict” — Essay #2 — Walking Egg
Opinion Written by: m.wilson Read @ Medium.com The second of three essays on Grasping the Nettle, Cases of Intractable Conflict (2005) — Crocker, Hampson, Aall. “Intractability is a quality of particular social conflicts.” The recent reproductive rights conflict feels intractable, though technically it may not be. The authors state that the five characteristics identifying an intractable conflict (each of
A Sober Life for a Productive Gain
Letter Written by: Molly Anonymous Sobriety is an essential aspect of life. It protects the delicate chemistry associated with decision making and is synonymous with the concept of management; especially in situations that could have otherwise gone worse. So many people are still suffering from the shackles of alcoholism and drug abuse
Sexual – Reproductive Health and Rights
Opinion Written by: Mori Klin We have been fighting for our rights for centuries. While its been nearly three decades since the wave of terrorism occurring between 1993 and 2009; when Dr. David Gunn, one of the first of four abortion care providers, was murdered in the United States (HuffPost, 2017). Today,
VIP Birth
Spirituality Written by: m.wilson In psychic training, “Spirit Babies” are said to be tiny specs of light representing the future manifestation of a child. The presence of a Spirit Baby is an indication of its intention to be born, though of course there is no guarantee of that occurring. These entities are
The Genetic Benefits of Mating Outside Your (Group)
Science Written by: m.wilson When individuals tend to mate within a particular ‘group,’ it increases the likelihood that the recessive genes of the ‘founders’ will (activate) – interact with each other and develop within the couple’s offspring. The founder effect is enhanced when a fraction of that group changes locale, because the
Married LGBT Couples and Adoption
LGBT One of the most excellent benefits to society stemming from gay marriage, (besides equal rights), is the prospect of abandoned children finding loving homes. Prior to 2016, single male homosexuals could legally adopt in all states. However, in some places like Georgia, Kentucky, and Michigan, there would have been doubt