Gabriel Nathan

6 days ago

This Suicide Awareness Month: Go Ahead; Politicize Suicide Prevention

“Don’t politicize suicide prevention,” they say, while forcing LGBTQIA+ kids into the shadows and into the closet. “Don’t politicize suicide prevention,” they say, while waving thin-blue-line flags one day, and busting cops’ heads at the U. S. Capitol the next. “Don’t politicize suicide prevention,” they say, while there’s a youth…

Suicide

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Suicide

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Jul 20

If You See Something (Should You) Say Something(?): an Examination of Our Moral Imperative by a Guy Who Didn’t Quite Minor in Philosophy

I’d like to write a funny essay today, but I don’t feel funny or feel like being funny. Maybe it’s too hot to be funny. Maybe it’s because nothing feels funny anymore. Maybe funny stopped when the actual news headlines started reading like “The Onion” news headlines. Maybe funny stopped…

Morality

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If You See Something (Should You) Say Something(?):

Morality

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Jul 4

America’s Love Letter from an Immigrant’s Son

My father came here from Israel in 1972, to go to college — the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Sciences, to be exact (it isn’t there anymore — well, it is, but it’s now owned by Jefferson University). A lot of things “aren’t there anymore” from my father’s early days…

America

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America

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May 8

Woke Ramblings of a Snowflake Libtard Father of Two About to Turn 43

Today, it’s May 8, 2023, and I’m wondering if I have the ability to post a recipe, or a prose-poem about doing laundry, or a shopping list, or a Mark Twain quote, or instructions for lighting a match or a stream-of-consciousness piece about what I’d like my obituary to be…

America

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Woke Ramblings of a Snowflake Libtard Father of Two About to Turn 43

America

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Mar 17

Matching Your Energy: The Police, Violence, and Mental Illness in America

Beginning on January 1, 2019, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, for those who like acronyms and lightly buttered toast) began a nationwide collection of data relating to use-of-force incidents by police officers. Who was watching the cops and keeping data before? Newspapers, like the Washington Post. Interestingly (and unsurprisingly)…

Mental Illness

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Mental Illness

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Feb 13

Suicide Prevention’s Biggest Problem: It Never “Gets Better”

I recently started an “Ask Me Anything” about mental health and suicide prevention on my Instagram, and I have some pretty mixed feelings about it. …

Suicide

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Suicide

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Jan 20

Let’s All Grow the Fuck Up

From December 1-December 31, I made 72 cents off my writing on Medium. I know, you’re probably swirling in a tempest of jealousy. What can I say? I’m basically what would have happened if Augusten Burroughs wasn’t gay, got into a DeLorean going 88mph, impregnated a Jewish Jane Austen and…

Education

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Education

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Dec 7, 2022

The City of Joy’s Unintentional Ambassador

“Ey,” Kay said to me on the bed at our Air BNB in Kolkata, “do you think you want to propose to me now?” “Ohn ohn,” I said, eyes crinkled, in her native Assamese. I know a few words and phrases, and she’s made matzah ball soup and soofganeeyot, but…

Marriage

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The City of Joy’s Unintentional Ambassador

Marriage

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Nov 4, 2022

The Only Way to Prevent Firearm Suicide in America

Trigger warning: suicide & satire. — — At long last, after losing thousands and thousands of Americans every year to firearm suicide, after countless hours of toil and study by Ph.D. level suicidologists, after innumerable millions of dollars spent on careful research, after myriad meetings of suicide prevention and gun…

Guns

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The Only Way to Prevent Firearm Suicide in America

Guns

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Sep 24, 2022

No, You Can’t Be a MAGA Republican and a Suicide Prevention Advocate

Sometimes, party affiliation kills people. Sorry, it’s true. Do I have research to back that claim up? No, I don’t. But I don’t need research to prove a very obvious fact: intolerance, prejudice, othering, marginalization, fear-mongering, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and emotiophobia (see the ever-popular “fuck-your-feelings” mantra which is basically a…

LGBTQ

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No, You Can’t Be a MAGA Republican and a Suicide Prevention Advocate

LGBTQ

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