Christine de Pizan or Pisan, born Cristina da Pizzano (1364 – c. 1430), was a poet and author at the court of King Charles VI of France. She is best remembered for defending women in The Book of the City of Ladies and The Treasure of the City of Ladies. Venetian by birth, Christine was a prominent moralist and political thinker in medieval France. Christine's patrons included dukes Louis I of Orleans, Philip the Bold, and John the Fearless. Her books of advice to princesses, princes, and knights remained in print until the 16th century.
Theresa Kachindamoto is the paramount chief, or Inkosi, of the Dedza District
in the central region of Malawi. She has informal authority over more than 900,000
people. She is known for her forceful action in dissolving child marriages and
insisting on education for both girls and boys.
Daryl Davis is no ordinary musician. He’s played with President Clinton and tours the country playing “burnin’ boogie woogie piano” and sharing musical stylings inspired by greats like Fats Domino, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. He’s a highly respected and electrifying performer who is currently an integral member of The Legendary Blues Band (formerly …
“So, I wrote my BIFF Response but Marvin wrote me another angry email.
Actually, he wrote 6 more this week, so what’s up with that? Why didn’t
he stop after my first email?”
The BIFF Response Method will teach you how to respond to angry emails, texts, or social media posts while maintaining your dignity and personal power.
Personal boundaries are guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify reasonable, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave towards them and how they will respond when someone passes those limits.[1] They are built out of a mix of conclusions, beliefs, opinions, attitudes, past experiences and social learning.[2][3] This concept or life skill has been widely referenced in self-help books and used in the counseling profession since the mid-1980s.[4]
«This is an illustrated guide I made as part of my co-admining work at The
Middle Eastern Feminist on Facebook! It will be published there shortly. The
technique that is displayed here is a genuine one used in psychology - I
forgot the name and couldn’t find it again so if you know about it, feel free
to tell me! Some could say: “Yes but you can use that technique for instances
of harassment other than Islamophobic attacks!”, and my reply is: Sure!
Please do so, it also works for other “types” of harassment of a lone person
in a public space!!»
Self-handicapping is a cognitive strategy by which people avoid effort in the hopes of keeping potential failure from hurting self-esteem.[1] It was first theorized by Edward E. Jones and Steven Berglas,[2] according to whom self-handicaps are obstacles created, or claimed, by the individual in anticipation of failing performance.[3]
Learned Helplessness is behaviour exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control. It was initially thought to be caused from the subject's acceptance of their powerlessness: discontinuing attempts to escape or avoid the aversive stimulus, even when such alternatives are unambiguously presented. Upon exhibiting such behavior, the subject was said to have acquired learned helplessness.[1][2] Over the past few decades, neuroscience has provided insight into learned helplessness and shown that the original theory actually had it backwards: the brain's default state is to assume that control is not present, and the presence of "helpfulness" is what is actually learned.[3]