Tag: Denial

Denial can be more than a personal failure to acknowledge something, like your addiction to eating cookies after midnight. It can also be a societal one, like White Americans systematically denying the existential threat of white supremacy. How has this denial been created and sustained over the yea...

Istarted cultivating relationships with “good” old ladies when I was only 46. My first old lady, Henrietta, was 75. I didn’t call her my old lady. I didn’t realize I would go on to amass a group of them. Nor did I truly understand how important my old ladies were...

Denial can be more than a personal failure to acknowledge something, like your addiction to eating cookies after midnight. It can also be a societal one, like White Americans systematically denying the existential threat of white supremacy. How has this denial been created and sustained over the yea...

First lets give a quick timeline of events. The tweets that led to people accusing JK Rowling of Holocaust denial start with her response to NHS England’s decision to halt new puberty blocker prescriptions again. She quotes professor Carl Heneghan before launching into a tirade in re...

Denial is a shield in defiance of the truth, a way of holding onto preconceived notions no matter how many facts come flying your way. At least, that's how it feels watching White people deny the harmful impact of racist laws, policies, and beliefs throughout the history of this country. Take Da...