Author: ellemadelyn

• How Hustle Culture Effects Our Mental Health – SheKnows

  We are Hustling ourselves to mental illness and death. Why? “Along the same lines, this need for constant productivity sometimes makes people feel pressured to turn every hobby into a side hustle, which is part of our culture of making everything into a capitalist pursuit, Boyes says. Surely the Stoics wouldn’t approve of manipulating a […]

  ellemadelyn

  June 12, 2019

  Around the Web, Stress Less

  mindfulness, selfcare, stressmanagement, stress_less

• The activist’s paradox: To answer the call to act to relieve human suffering without drowning in the suffering

  Brief, but accurate. https://wp.me/pO0No-1ps

  ellemadelyn

  May 30, 2019

  activism, Hope and Cope, Inspiration, Social Justice Activism, Stress Less

  activism, burnout, kindnessactsoflove, meditation, mindfulness, selfcare

• What Karma Really Means

  View this post on Instagram Everything is in your hands. A post shared by Tom Bilyeu (@tombilyeu) on May 21, 2019 at 11:26am PDT

  ellemadelyn

  May 29, 2019

  Around the Web, Hope and Cope, Stress Less

  meditation, mindfulness, selfcare, stress relief, stressmanagement

• Malcolm X Day

  Here is a brief clip of the fire that was Malcolm X. So full of life. View this post on Instagram A post shared by amandaseales (@amandaseales)

  ellemadelyn

  May 24, 2019

  activism, Around the Web, Inspiration, Social Justice Activism

  civil rights, thesystem, to protect and serve

• Former homeless student overcomes extraordinary odds to graduate from Georgetown University | WTOP

  (WASHINGTON) – Rashema Melson is no stranger to adversity. The 23-year-old, who had lived for three years in a Washington, D.C. shelter, made headlines as the valedictorian of Anacostia High School’s Class of 2014 with a full scholarship to Georgetown University. On Saturday, Melson graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in justice and peace […]

  ellemadelyn

  May 22, 2019

  Around the Web, Inspiration, Social Justice Activism, Women Being Awesome

  poverty, social_justice, trauma

• DC police disproportionately target black people for minor violations: study | WTOP

  Black residents in the District are disproportionately arrested for minor violations, despite making up less than half of the population, according to a study by two watchdog groups. Black people make up 47% of D.C.’s population but accounted for 86% of all arrests in the District — ten times the arrest rate of white residents, […]

  ellemadelyn

  May 20, 2019

  Uncategorized

• “Today it’s becoming more clear that disparities have more to do with racism than race, says Neel Shah, an OB-GYN and a professor at Harvard Medical School. For a long time there was “this baked-in assumption” that there was something different genetically among black women leading to their higher rates of maternal mortality, he says. […]

  ellemadelyn

  May 13, 2019

  Affordable_Healthcare, Around the Web, Social Justice Activism

  activism, cycleofpoverty, feminism, racism_exists, social_justice

• The ACLU is suing a city where calling 911 could get you evicted – Business Insider

  ” That’s what happened to the ACLU’s Norristown plaintiff, Lakisha Briggs, who says her landlord didn’t want to evict her, but told her that he had no choice—the city would fine him $1,000 a day if she stayed. Briggs told NPR that she didn’t even make the final 911 call that put her on the […]

  ellemadelyn

  May 8, 2019

  Around the Web, to protect and serve

  social_justice, thesystem, to protect and serve

• A Program That’s There When You Get Out Of Prison, So You Wont Go Back In : NPR

  https://www.npr.org/2019/05/06/693659620/changing-how-you-think-helps-the-transition-from-prisoner-back-to-citizen

  ellemadelyn

  May 6, 2019

  Uncategorized

• Protests Erupt In Bangladesh After Young Woman Burned Alive For Reporting Sexual Harassment From Her Principal | BLAVITY

  This is a worldwide problem and we got a long way to go. *This* is why its going to take all of us. ” Nusrat Jahan Rafi’s last words to her brother were an act of defiance. “The teacher touched me. I will fight this crime till my last breath,” she said to her brother […]

  ellemadelyn

  April 27, 2019

  activism, Around the Web, Social Justice Activism, Women Being Awesome

  activism, child abuse, civil rights, feminism, thesystem, trauma, Women Being Awesome