Autism is my super blessing! I'm a high-school valedictorian, college graduate, world traveler, disability advocate. I'm a Unitarian Universalist. I'm a Progressive Liberal. I'm about equal rights, human rights, civil & political rights, & economic, social, &cultural rights. I do servant leadership, boundless optimism, & Oneness/Wholeness. I'm good naked & unashamed! I love positive personhood, love your neighbor as yourself, and do no harm! I'm also appropriately inappropriate! My self-ratings: NC-17, XXX, X, X18+ & TV-MA means empathy! I publish shows at 11am! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/support
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 85 days 7 hours 32 minutes
episode 64: The sad, twisted truth about conservative Christianity's effect on the mind (Some religious beliefs may alter brain function, making us more prone to anxiety and depression)
“I am 30 years old and I am struggling to find sanity. Between the Christian schools, homeschooling, the Christian group home (indoctrinating work camp) and different churches in different cities, I am a psychological, emotional and spiritual mess.” --A former Evangelical
If a former believer says that Christianity made her depressed, obsessive, or post-traumatic, she is likely to be dismissed as an exaggerator...
episode 63: 5 Signs That You May Be an Ambivert
"Careers where ambiverts thrive In general, ambiverts are likely to thrive in careers that involve a balance of collaboration and time spent working independently. That’s because it allows them to use both introvert and extrovert traits. An ambivert might excel in these careers: Sales people have to be persuasive, while also considering a customer’s needs. Ambiverts have a natural ability to switch between talking and listening...
episode 62: Can you explain what pro-choice means and pro-life means?
"Can you explain what pro-choice means and pro-life means? When my family talks about abortion I think they’re saying “pro-choice” and “pro-life” wrong, but I’m not sure.
The pro-choice and pro-life labels are confusing for a reason: They force people into just two boxes for all their religious, moral, political, and practical beliefs on abortion. Still, a lot of people use these labels (like your fam)...
episode 61: My being pro-choice doesn't make me anti pro-life, I make the pro-life community feel belonged
"A federal judge late Wednesday temporarily blocked enforcement of a Texas law that bans most abortions, delivering an early victory to the Biden administration in its legal challenge to the law.
In a 113-page order, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman of Austin said the law is an "offensive deprivation of such an important right" and said state actors, including judges and court clerks, can no longer enforce its provisions...
episode 60: KEY FACTS ON ABORTION
"PEOPLE HAVE ABORTIONS ALL THE TIME, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE LAW SAYS Ending a pregnancy is a common decision that millions of people make – every year a quarter of pregnancies end in abortion. And regardless of whether abortion is legal or not, people still require and regularly access abortion services...
episode 59: Don't politicize women and girls for any and all reasons
"Fetal abnormality laws ban abortions in cases of fetal abnormality even if the fetus will die before or shortly after birth. Enacted in 2013, North Dakota is the only state to ban abortions in cases of fetal abnormality...
episode 58: U.S.A. President Biden Lifts Abortion Referral Ban On Family Planning Clinics
"Groups representing the clinics said they hope the Biden administration action will lead some 1,300 local facilities that left in protest over Trump’s policies to return, helping to stabilize a longstanding program shaken by the coronavirus pandemic on top of ideological battles...
episode 57: Sexual and reproductive health and rights or SRHR
"Subsequently, WAS made some revisions to the Valencia Declaration and proposed a WAS Declaration of Sexual Rights which was approved by the General Assembly at the 14th World Congress of Sexology (Hong Kong, 1999). The WAS adopted the Declaration of Sexual Rights, which originally included 11 sexual rights...
episode 56: Abortion laws part 5 (final part)
"For the next 45 years — not including the two years I was away in the Air Force — I was a practicing OB/GYN in Texas, conducting Pap smears, pelvic exams and pregnancy check-ups; delivering more than 10,000 babies; and providing abortion care at clinics I opened in Houston and San Antonio, and another in Oklahoma.
Then, this month, everything changed. A new Texas law, known as S.B. 8, virtually banned any abortion beyond about the sixth week of pregnancy...
episode 55: How to live together unmarried correctly part 2 (final part)
Side notes: I am open to not living with my excellent partner if I was in a successful relationship. Consult quality attorneys, not the loan shark type of attorneys.
"The appeal of cohabitatingSome couples like the flexibility of cohabiting as it gives them a chance to get to know their partner and then decide if they want to move toward marriage...