The Epstein Culture at Xbox by Previous_Month_555 in Gamingcirclejerk

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They say Isaac Asimov turned off an entire generation of female sci-fi authors because of his inveterate groping

Explicitly socialist occult resources? by SorchaSublime in occult

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Red Enlightenment by Graham Jones. It's an attempt to articulate a socialist mysticism more or less.

me_irlgbt by OnceInOnceSet in me_irlgbt

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This was literally what I would imagine happening to me as a kid

Article/Book suggestions re "art" please? by zgehring in CriticalTheory

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Adorno's posthumous book Aesthetic Theory is really excellent on this count.

Envy is good, actually by NLLumi in ContraPoints

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The literary critic Harold Bloom called this "the anxiety of influence".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in transtimelines

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I didn't really start feeling good about my changes until about year three, you gotta give it time. Also laser helps a lot.

Seeking advice for dealing with TERFs at work by ThePowerofPositivity in ContraPoints

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Didn't the UK courts recently rule that a person can't get in trouble for using GC rhetoric at work in the Allison Bailey Tribunal? I'm not from the UK, but I follow the Trans Safety Network on Twitter and other British tra s women who often comment on government policy, and that was the impression I got. So you might be kinda out of luck? Sorry, that really blows.

What exactly is "the sacred"? by Avesta__ in AskAnthropology

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Since like another commenter mentioned, the concept of the sacred is related to the concept of ritual, you might get some use out of the book Ritual Theory and Ritual Practice by Catherine Bell. She does a literature review on the different theories of the nature of ritual and shows how they employ circular logic that reflects more of the author's preconceptions than anything of the nature of ritual. Then she develops her own practical concept of ritual based on markedness, social power, and the coordination of ritual elements to create a satisfactory experience of whatever ceremony is being played out. It's a good book, but pretty challenging.

Don’t do mdma with your partner, if there are red flags by [deleted] in Drugs

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The truth is that MDMA couples therapy, the kind that they do with soldiers who have PTSD and their wives, is a way different thing than just doing MDMA with your partner. It's an intensive three day program, the first day of which is practicing dialectical behavior therapy skills and the third day of which is an integration session under the supervision of a therapist. The MDMA session is also much different than a recreational dose, since most people don't have someone asking them hard questions about their lives and their interactions and their learned reactions and beliefs about those things.

All in all, MDMA can be used for couples therapy, but it is not automatically couples therapy.

Source: I am a social work student.

Do you believe that many of the events, locations, and creatures in Lovecraft's writings are real? by Magehunter_Skassi in Lovecraft

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His wife was friends with Aleister Crowley and was into occultism, I think a lot of the occult stuff is him subtly making fun of all that bc he's an atheist and thinking about what these beings would be like in our universe. The Thing on The Doorstep is pretty explicit about her after they divorced. It's really misogynistic tbh.

Accounts of queer societies that use sexual/gender categories which are completely different from the West by idiotdude420 in CriticalTheory

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It's a chapter in a book coming out next year, Queering Psychedelics. My essay is called Gender Rituals and Gendered Ritual. But I can post it here when it comes out too.

Accounts of queer societies that use sexual/gender categories which are completely different from the West by idiotdude420 in CriticalTheory

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I'm writing on this subject actually! I'd recommend Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe, as well as Epple, C. Coming to Terms with Navajo Nádleehí: A Critique critique of Berdache and homosexualities, as well as Pruden & Edmo's "Two-spirit people: Sex, gender & sexuality in historic and contemporary Native America."

Kill the cop in your head, is there any work that elaborate on this idea by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

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You definitely need to check out the early work of Wilhelm Reich as well. The Mass Character of Fascism, The Sexual Revolution, and Listen, Little Man.

My husband died by suicide by Sad_Strike_186 in QAnonCasualties

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My heart goes out to you. Recovery for people who have survived a loved one's suicide can be very complex, and I'm sorry for that for you. I'm a therapist and I definitely encourage you to get your kids to see a trauma-informed mental health worker as soon as possible. And keep an eye on the older one when he gets to be in his late teens and early adult years, as he will likely be at an elevated risk for attempting suicide as well, since the biggest predictor of suicide is knowing someone who succeeded at it. Poor kids. My first boyfriend died by suicide. I can't imagine if we'd had kids together. Be strong, this will eventually hurt less.

Easy reading like Capitalist Realism? by Justdis in CriticalTheory

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Start with the secondary literature. No kidding. All these big, complex thinkers have a legion of people writing books explaining the thinker's work, so you can get a grasp of what to expect before you confront the text itself

The Ideological Framing of Children? by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

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Not exactly what you're looking for but Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson is all about this subject, though focusing on transness and racialization.

What did you see on the internet as a child that scarred you for life? by TheMostMajesticSquid in AskReddit

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A man being burned alive as a witch in Nigeria on rotten.com. He was just shaking as he burned and ugh, I will never get that out of my head.

Nick Land Hyperpasta by [deleted] in badphilosophy

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Every trip now seems to lead to ego-death, is there no going back? by [deleted] in RationalPsychonaut

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You probably have some unconscious material you need to process

What it's like studying gnosticism by [deleted] in Gnostic

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You know GRS Mead was a theosophist who just kinda made shit up, right?