Best of Thing of Things
Some blog posts I liked over the years
Let’s begin the new Substack by reviewing some favorite posts from the past.
Neurodiversity/Disability
Kintsugi. About the experience of coming to terms with being chronically mentally ill.
Forks Model of Disability. An alternative to the spoons model, for people whose mental illnesses work differently from spoonies’.
The Curb Cut Effect. How accommodations for disability benefit everyone.
Load Bearing Things. Solving the obvious problems with your mental health.
The DBT Sequence. A series summarizing what I learned in dialectical behavior therapy, an evidence-based treatment for borderline personality disorder.
Transness
Cis By Default. Probably the single concept I’ve developed that people have most resonated with!
Man Should Allocate Some More Categories. On the epistemology of transness.
Ethics/Effective Altruism
Sacred Values Are What Ethical Injunctions Feel Like From The Inside.
We Can Be Heroes, or why you should be an effective altruist.
Sex Positivity
Lazy Poly. Why you might want to be poly even if you don’t date outside your relationship much.
What do you guys think? Did I miss anything?
Actually, one post I find myself thinking about a lot is "The Irrationalfic Manifesto" (https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2018/12/28/the-irrationalfic-manifesto/).
"Steelmanning PIV-Critical Feminism" contains some very, very important sex advice.