Hey congrats! From residential placement to a doctoral program is something to be really proud of! I wish more of my students could see that needing treatment does not define the rest of their lives :(

I’m a 6th year doctoral student and I’ve worked in a handful of different residential treatment settings. When I was a teenager, I went to an 18-month residential placement, myself. It is VERY accurate.

I loved her response to Casey Affleck and love her response to this. I know we shouldn’t be celebrating this type of reaction because it should be the norm but unfortunately it isn’t so it’s refreshing to see someone do/say the right thing.

You mean, besides a total babe and a role model?

I love Short Term 12, too! Met Destin Cretton a while ago, and he actually worked in a facility like that. All of my social worker friends (I work in nonprofits—there are a lot :) ) are fans of that movie. Larson was fantastic in it!

She could’ve given the weakest, emptiest of PR statements, but we get this. Brie Larson is a class act.

I thought that too. If they’re going to come forward and make these allegations, they deserve to know that there aren’t any qualifications or hoops they need to jump through — just saying “I believe you” is a powerful three-word statement.

A movie star. She won the Oscar for Best Actress in Room. She was also really good in the (surprisingly accurate) film Short Term 12 about the experience of working in adolescent residential treatment. She was in Scott Pilgrim, 21 Jump Streer, and Kong: Skull Island. She’s going to be Captain Marvel in the MCU.

This is one of the best statements I’ve seen from a celebrity. Reading “I believe you” is so, so powerful.

This, Arya basically turned into every jackass on the internet that blames Sansa for everything bad that happens and ignores the fact that she was a terrified child being manipulated by several adults in positions of power.

That was her true intent, no?

Yeah, which is why elsewhere I said she overshot and landed on the other side. Assuming that was her intention. I think Fey likes the whole “anxious white woman who can’t act on anything” trope a bit too much (I see it in all of her comedy.)

This assumes her audience understands that kind of subtlety. Most (white) people think it’s “brilliant”, and not because it’s shaming people for their head in the sand (cake) inertia.

Que 10,000 comments about being too harsh on “well-meaning allies” *wank off motion* and how we’re alienating those who want to help us *wank off motion*

during lunch today,

She doesn’t have the voice anymore. I think the attempted dance moves are a way to distract from the fact that she can’t hit the same notes anymore and still try to give somewhat of a show?

I’m not a Lamb but I do like her and her music and her diva-licious behavior. It’s just fun as hell watching her being shady and lazy, lol.

This is a woman who prefers to be carried from place to place. She clearly doesn’t work out (even in normal daily locomotion). No way she could handle actual stage choreography. But there’s no reason she has to; many concert singers just stand there in a gown or tuxedo and sing. With a voice like hers, that should be…

This is the best thing I have seen all day today. She’s just done.

Brilliantly useful. This is what I don’t find enough of on these here interwebs.