PinnedEmma Barnes“Your Expectations Are Disabling”It’s exhausting to seek accommodations. Here’s how to make it smoother.Oct 20, 20227Oct 20, 20227
PinnedEmma BarnesinDivergentAuthorsLove is Personal, Violence is Cultural — we’re vectors.May 6, 20224May 6, 20224
Emma BarnesPaths are fragile. Nature is not.Tramping or trampling? Me killing the cop in my headApr 291Apr 291
Emma BarnesYes, you are going crazy. We all are. And that’s great.Daylight saving is quirky right? We shuffle the clock forward each year and wind it back an hour some months later and that’s it. No…Feb 24Feb 24
Emma BarnesAssimilationMy high school fancied itself as a time lord, abolishing the five-day working week and administering its own six-day construct. It pushed a…Jan 1Jan 1
Emma BarnesMad People are My People“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”Dec 2, 2023Dec 2, 2023
Emma BarnesWhy your Emotions Live Where they doIn How Emotions are Made, Lisa Feldman Barrett describes “the classical view of emotion” and new consensus which she calls the “theory of…Jul 3, 20232Jul 3, 20232
Emma BarnesComing Out is NutsI recall my first week of telling people “I’m trans” and watching their face do things I had not expected. If they didn’t choke on their…May 22, 20232May 22, 20232
Emma BarnesMental Health will be Taken, not GivenIt starts with our languageMay 16, 20231May 16, 20231
Emma BarnesJordan Peterson is so ExtraBecca Rothfield lays bare the deception of our greatest modern misogynist, Jordan Peterson, in a piece titled, “Sexism and the aesthetics…May 14, 20232May 14, 20232