Lucinda Gunnin

2 days ago

Stop Pretending Gun Rights Activists Are Sane

Giving People the Benefit of the Doubt Leads to More Dead Kids — We’ve all done it. We’ve all pretended for the sake of a family member or a friendship that people who believe everyone should be able to own any sort of gun they want are absolutely not insane. Gun activists even admit it. Not if you asked them about it, obviously. …

Gun Control

4 min read

Aug 4

Ms. Marvel’s Bad Story a Disservice to the Character

Did Racists Somehow Write a Disney+ Show? Last week, my husband and I finished the six episodes that Disney+ used to introduce Kamala Khan and Ms. Marvel. I wanted to love it. I like the character and I thought Disney + was going to use it as a step toward…

Ms Marvel Series

4 min read

Jul 28

Stranger Things Season 4 and Racism

My husband and I are binge watchers of television, in that we never watch things as they come out. We wait until the season is finished before we start watching it. And sometimes that means we don’t get around to watching things while they are still being discussed ad nauseum…

Stranger Things Season 4

7 min read

Jul 26

Catalytic Converters and Receiving Stolen Property: Who Should Police Be After?

Every few years, if the economy is especially bad or the price of precious metals skyrockets, we see an uptick in thefts of catalytic converters. For the last 18 months, at least, they have been significant in southeastern Pennsylvania. The storage facility we manage has been hit once. Others in…

Catalytic Converter

4 min read

Jul 21

The On-Going Cost of Growing Up Poor

I’m Going to Disney World — When you grow up poor, like 16% of American children, you think that you are missing out on the things that other kids get to do. You think that because it’s true. So when you get beyond that poverty line, to lower class or the, the holy grail, middle class…

Growing Up Poor

3 min read

Jul 17

Lies You Believe About Poverty: My Laziness is Why I am Poor

Last week, I helped a friend figure out their budget. My friend is no longer poor — sort of — but recently was. So a lot of people in her life don’t understand the reality she is living, including her. My friend believes that she is still struggling with money…

Poverty

5 min read

Jul 9

Abelism in Prescriptions

How the War on Drugs is Used Against People with Disabilities Last fall, I was diagnosed with ADHD. I’ve likely had it my entire life, but women are far less likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit disorders than men are. In fact, as much as 75% of the cases in…

Adhd

5 min read

Jul 2

How Roe v. Wade’s Reversal Opened the Door to Eugenics Against Disabled People

The Supreme Court decision to overturn the abortion protections provided by Roe v. Wade have lead to a lot of fear among women of child-bearing age and the people who love them. We are already hearing stories of obstetrician practices who are so afraid of being sued that they are…

Right To Choose

3 min read

May 15

The Purity Problem of American Democrats

Do we believe in growth and change or not? — The American Democrat Party keeps holding itself to higher standards than the opposition and because of that is actually hurting the party. A few years back, a Republican woman accused Senator Al Franken of molesting her during a comedy show in the 1990s when he was a comedian. The photographic…

John Fetterman

5 min read

May 13

Fundraising and Unrealistic Expectations:

at We Demand from Non-Profits — Animal rescues and rehabilitation non-profits fill a lot of my social media time. They are the causes I am most likely to donate to and that I want updates on. And I’ve watched over the years as they get hit with more and more unrealistic expectations and stupid demands from…

Rescue

4 min read