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is a clinical psychologist based in Philadelphia, US. Her poetry, essays and feature articles have been published by The New ...

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Research with transgender people sheds light on the memory processes that allow any of us to navigate periods of change ...

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The novelist and poet Ursula K Le Guin shows we can reject nihilism and naive optimism by practising our collective freedom ...

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