It’s a skill that’s very much learnable, but probably not covered in your fancy liberal-arts education, unless you went to a super-progressive school. “We’re just not trained to speak inContinue reading “Why Emotional Fluency is Key for a Successful Relationship”
Tag Archives: communication
Deaf Discrimination
Hearing privilege is a real thing. Most people are at least marginally aware of the Deaf community, and the proliferation of ASL in high schools and colleges has helped shedContinue reading “Deaf Discrimination”
Music Crosses Boundaries
Religious boundaries, physiological boundaries, emotional boundaries… music reaches deep. “For a split second, we became one person.” Watch Naomi Feil sing her way into the heart of a woman withContinue reading “Music Crosses Boundaries”
Cultural Exchange, Cultural Appropriation
Jarune Uwujaren, on Everyday Feminism, dispels the confusion around when something represents sincere exchange between cultures and when a culture is being destructively appropriated for another’s consumption. While acknowledging thatContinue reading “Cultural Exchange, Cultural Appropriation”
Death and Compassion
A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Personality and Social Psychology Review looks at the ways our ideas around death impact our relationships. “Authors of a new study reviewed earlier research that hadContinue reading “Death and Compassion”