PinnedEmma Barnes“Your Expectations Are Disabling”It’s exhausting to seek accommodations. Here’s how to make it smoother.·2 min read·Oct 20, 2022--6--6
PinnedEmma BarnesinDivergentAuthorsLove is Personal, Violence is Cultural — we’re vectors.This is a story about people doing their best. Like we all are.11 min read·May 6, 2022--4--4
Emma BarnesPaths are fragile. Nature is not.Wandering an alpine national park recently my companion watched me duck off the trail to smell a flower and sample water in a stream. I was…4 min read·4 days ago--1--1
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…6 min read·Feb 24, 2024----
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…3 min read·Jan 1, 2024----
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.”4 min read·Dec 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…·4 min read·Jul 3, 2023--2--2
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…·2 min read·May 22, 2023--2--2
Emma BarnesMental Health will be Taken, not GivenIt starts with our language·2 min read·May 16, 2023--1--1
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…·4 min read·May 14, 2023--2--2