As an ICU nurse I have witnessed many passing over the years. Some have been beautiful, graceful exits and others have been less so, with resuscitative efforts and medical interventions complicating the journey. Once in a while I will get a stable patient who has a premonition “I don’t think I will make it out of…

I am a Norse/Germanic pagan, but choose not to practice with a formal group; there are plenty of Asatru who are fervently opposed to racism, but in general it’s a little too völkisch for my taste. Plus I was raised Catholic and retain my aversion to organized religion from those younger days.

Then again, some might say that religion itself is nothing but an elaborate mechanism for coping with death anxiety.

Apparently white women in interracial relationships - real of fictional - are the enemy.

Yeah, this article has a disgusting take that Kumail’s actual love is wrong. Which is fucked up any way you slice it.

And it hits home as a critique of those of us that are in interracial relationships as well. That may not be the intent of the authors of these pieces, but it easily comes across as such. My SO and I are sick of people insinuating our relationship is either a fetish or a cultural malady.