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)…

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. …

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…

“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…

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…

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…

I have never been more ashamed, embarrassed, and repulsed about being a suicide awareness advocate in America than I am today. Suicide prevention and awareness-raising has become, instead of a game of kick-the-can, which it often has been, far worse than that: a venture for maligning crisis workers, pitting advocates…

You say you love the United States Constitution, and yet you have no problem telling anyone who exercises their First Amendment right in order to call “Bullshit” on any aspect of this allegedly great nation to “love it or leave it.” You say you love the United States Constitution, and…

Did you know that May is Mental Health Awareness Month? Did you know that #itsokaytonotbeokay? Did you know that some hot supermodel killed herself even though she was a hot supermodel? Did you know that Ariana Grande speaks out to end the stigma around mental health? Did you know that…