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A guide to end-of-life planning that doesn’t suck

Work Life

A few years ago, when a friend learned that we share a love for Warren Zevon, he told me that he wanted Zevon’s songs “I Have to Leave,” “My Ride’s Here,” and “Keep Me in Your Heart” played at his funeral—in that order. Not only did this conversation prompt me to think about what songs I’d like for my own curtain call, but my friend’s funeral mixtape plans also helped me understand that end-of-life planning doesn’t have to be an exercise in existential nihilism.

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Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions

Mad in America

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Mad in Mexico. It was written by Professor Sandra Caponi and expert by experience Virginia Carril. A s Phyllis Chesler warned us in 1974, gender bias has accompanied psychiatric power throughout its history. Years later, in 2005, in the last annotated edition of Women and Madness , the author insisted on the persistence of this bias, which even today, 50 years later, seems to remain unchanged.

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Harris’s election loss shows American women still face a glass ceiling

Work Life

Kamala Harris was a candidate of many firsts, including the first Black and South Asian woman to run for president as the Democratic nominee. Her resounding, swift loss in the presidential race to Republican Donald Trump on November 5 means many things to different people, including the fact that American voters are unable to break the glass ceiling and elect a woman president.