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Signs You’ve Met Your Soulmate (Even if They’re Not Perfect)
Have you ever met someone and felt like your soul already knew them? Like a whisper deep inside saying, “There you are”? That instant spark, the comfort, and the inexplicable familiarity — these are the signs that you may have met your soulmate, even if they’re not flawless.
By F. M. Rayaanabout a month ago in Humans
Shane Windmeyer Strengthens National DEI Landscape With Expanded Strategic Consulting Designed for Today’s Workplace
The workplace climate in the United States is shifting in ways that many leaders did not anticipate. New laws are influencing what organizations can discuss. Public debates around identity and belonging have intensified. Hybrid work environments have changed the way teams connect and communicate. Employees are asking more pointed questions about safety, fairness, and transparency. Leaders are feeling the weight of these expectations while trying to maintain operational stability. In the middle of so much change, many organizations are discovering that they need guidance rooted in clarity rather than confusion.
By Shane Windmeyerabout a month ago in Humans
The Weight of Reality: The Trade-Off Illusion
1. Every Solution Costs Something There is no such thing as a perfect solution. Every answer creates a new question, and every gain requires a loss. The idea that we can have everything without giving something up is one of the greatest lies of modern culture. Real progress demands trade-offs. Something must be sacrificed for something else to exist.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in Humans
The Racism You’re Not Supposed to Talk About:
For a community that prides itself on rainbows, love, and “chosen family,” the gay world has a very real, very ugly secret: racism is baked into its culture more deeply than most are willing to admit. People love to chant “love is love” at Pride, but scroll through Grindr for five minutes, walk into a club in a major gay city, or look at who gets put on magazine covers, and you’ll see how conditional that love actually is.
By Edwin Betancourt Jr.about a month ago in Humans
The Weight of Reality: The Myth of Fairness
1. Fairness Is a Human Fiction Fairness is not a natural law. It is a social illusion created by people who wish to avoid the pain of consequence. Nature operates on cause and effect, not comfort. A storm does not pause for equality. Gravity does not check whether the fall was fair. The universe is perfectly just in one sense only: every action brings a reaction. Fairness, however, is not justice. It is an emotional ideal built by those who want consequence without cost.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in Humans
The Scrutiny of Ordinary Women
There is a strange shift happening in public spaces that most professionals have avoided naming because everyone seems afraid to speak plainly. Regular women—the ones who do not treat cosmetics as daily armor or make their clothing choices a performance—are now being scanned as if they are something other than women. Many of them are being silently classified as trans or gay before a single word leaves their mouth. This judgment arrives in split-second glances, pacing, and the quiet hesitation of strangers trying to decide what category they think they are looking at.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin | Ink Profiler2 months ago in Humans
Feminist Afghan Media: Afghanistan Women’s News Agency (AWNA), Nimrokh Media, Rukhshana Media, Radio Begum, Begum TV, and Zan Times
Afghanistan is facing an extreme human-rights emergency, with Taliban policies shutting girls out of secondary and university education and denying 2.2 million girls schooling beyond the primary level. Women are barred from most work, public life, and basic freedoms, while forced and child marriage has surged. In this crisis, feminist media outlets—AWNA, Nimrokh, Rukhshana, Radio Begum, Begum TV, and Zan Times—have emerged in Afghanistan and in exile, documenting abuses and defending women’s voices despite escalating repression.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen2 months ago in Humans
By The Oak Tree
1973 Andrew’s hand clutched the fall leaves that he and Marc were atop of, he crunched them between his fist as he finished. Marc got off top of him and leaned against the oak tree they had set as a meeting point. Andrew let out an exaggerated sigh of exhaustion before joining his lover by the wood.
By Ben Langford2 months ago in Humans
