By: Revanche

Good Things Friday (207) and Link Love

February 10, 2023

1. I thought the Mucinex wasn’t doing anything so I stopped taking it and my coughing and congestion spiked to horrifying levels so maybe it WAS helping. I’m still coughing and congested but I’m on Mucinex round the clock now and I can breathe mostly.

2. We supported:

Shep’s ongoing Aseel campaign “to support families with children who are significantly impacted by the ongoing crisis and famine in Afghanistan“.
Also his new campaign to sponsor the educational expenses of 7 high school students in Paktia and ten orphans
JB’s pick: this campaign to help “11 women and their children in the Jabalsaraj district of Parwan province, Afghanistan. The women are all widows and have no income at all.”
Relief groups in the Bay Area responding to the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

Just a little link love

Short fiction: A Priest of Vast and Distant Places

About damn time: After blowback in Florida, menstrual questions cut from high school athletic forms

Gina Prince-Bythewood on the Oscars Shutout of ‘The Woman King’: “This Awards Season Was an Eye-Opener”

Harvard’s Peabody Museum Keeping Native Remains Is Just One Attack on the Rights of Indigenous Children: Whether it is the academic societies named after anti-Indigenous figures; fewer than five Indigenous tenured faculty and no Indigenous deans; little to no tribal health or law curriculum; or the recent announcement, during Native American Heritage Month, that the hair of over 900 Native ancestors has been held captive by Harvard University’s Peabody Museum since the 1930s, all of these truths exist to remind us this institution was not built for students like us. (Links in article for many of these things)

Can someone who’s never been poor ever truly understand the scars that poverty creates?

Spoiler alert, United Healthcare is evil garbage: UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.

United, in correspondence with McNaughton, noted that its review of his care was “not a treatment decision. Treatment decisions are made between you and your physician.” But by threatening not to pay for his medications, or only to pay for a different regimen, McNaughton said, United was in fact attempting to dictate his treatment. From his perspective, the insurer was playing doctor, making decisions without ever examining him or even speaking to him.

Speaking of evil, a massive deep dive into JKR’s evil: JK Rowling’s Anti-Transgender Stance And Hogwarts Legacy. Maybe the most key point: “Rowling herself has claimed that support of the Harry Potter franchise is seen by her as support of her anti-transgender views.”

She was an education pioneer. At 108, Edith Renfrow Smith shares her life lessons.