Karen Seashore
@karenseashore1.bsky.social
Regents Professor Emerita, but still alert and engaged. Author, blogger, life coach, and avid knitter...
In Praise of Postmenopausal Women
There are lots of jokes about menopause. There are no jokes about post menopause. Is that because we have internalized scientific reports summarizing the negative consequences of losing estrogen? Weight gain, bone loss, heart disease, depression, and desiccated…
There are lots of jokes about menopause. There are no jokes about post menopause. Is that because we have internalized scientific reports summarizing the negative consequences of losing estrogen? Weight gain, bone loss, heart disease, depression, and desiccated…
In Praise of Postmenopausal Women
There are lots of jokes about menopause. There are no jokes about post menopause. Is that because we have internalized scientific reports summarizing the negative consequences of losing estrogen? Weight gain, bone loss, heart disease, depression, and desiccated vaginas…How can you make that funny? Recent debates about “childless cat ladies” suggest that the social consequences of not being able to procreate may be even more severe: isolation and invisibility coupled with a lack of usefulness.
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July 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
In Praise of Postmenopausal Women
There are lots of jokes about menopause. There are no jokes about post menopause. Is that because we have internalized scientific reports summarizing the negative consequences of losing estrogen? Weight gain, bone loss, heart disease, depression, and desiccated…
There are lots of jokes about menopause. There are no jokes about post menopause. Is that because we have internalized scientific reports summarizing the negative consequences of losing estrogen? Weight gain, bone loss, heart disease, depression, and desiccated…
Getting old with heart requires being more vulnerable -- not an easy task, but I reflect on how being a woman with the usual baggage of insecurities led to many ways of "protecting" myself that I don't need any more.
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Vulnerable: What’s in a Word?
“I came to explore the wreck.The words are purposes.The words are maps.I came to see the damage that was doneand the treasures that prevail.” –Adrianne Rich Vulnerable: Susceptibl…
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May 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Getting old with heart requires being more vulnerable -- not an easy task, but I reflect on how being a woman with the usual baggage of insecurities led to many ways of "protecting" myself that I don't need any more.
karensdescant.com/2025/05/12/v...
karensdescant.com/2025/05/12/v...
Vulnerable: What’s in a Word?
"I came to explore the wreck.The words are purposes.The words are maps.I came to see the damage that was doneand the treasures that prevail." --Adrianne Rich Vulnerable: Susceptible to physical harm or damage, susceptible to emotional injury, or susceptible to attack.…
"I came to explore the wreck.The words are purposes.The words are maps.I came to see the damage that was doneand the treasures that prevail." --Adrianne Rich Vulnerable: Susceptible to physical harm or damage, susceptible to emotional injury, or susceptible to attack.…
Vulnerable: What’s in a Word?
"I came to explore the wreck.The words are purposes.The words are maps.I came to see the damage that was doneand the treasures that prevail." --Adrianne Rich Vulnerable: Susceptible to physical harm or damage, susceptible to emotional injury, or susceptible to attack. “Vulnerable populations” are unable to care for themselves; elderly people are “frail and vulnerable”.
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May 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Vulnerable: What’s in a Word?
"I came to explore the wreck.The words are purposes.The words are maps.I came to see the damage that was doneand the treasures that prevail." --Adrianne Rich Vulnerable: Susceptible to physical harm or damage, susceptible to emotional injury, or susceptible to attack.…
"I came to explore the wreck.The words are purposes.The words are maps.I came to see the damage that was doneand the treasures that prevail." --Adrianne Rich Vulnerable: Susceptible to physical harm or damage, susceptible to emotional injury, or susceptible to attack.…
Thank you Rev. William Barber: The Rev. Dr. William Barber was arrested at the Capitol for praying and challenging the budget bill -- let's support his prophetic witness act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/thank-y...
Thank you Rev. William Barber
The Rev. Dr. William Barber was arrested at the Capitol for praying and challenging the budget bill -- let's support his prophetic witness
act.faithfulamerica.org
May 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Thank you Rev. William Barber: The Rev. Dr. William Barber was arrested at the Capitol for praying and challenging the budget bill -- let's support his prophetic witness act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/thank-y...
Show Up Tomorrow! Get your May Day headlights on -- there is a protest near you...
April 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Show Up Tomorrow! Get your May Day headlights on -- there is a protest near you...
A WAR AGAINST WOMEN: Trump decimates Title X: the nation’s only federal family planning program that provides affordable reproductive health care—birth control, STI testing, cancer screenings—primarily to low-income and uninsured patients.
April 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
A WAR AGAINST WOMEN: Trump decimates Title X: the nation’s only federal family planning program that provides affordable reproductive health care—birth control, STI testing, cancer screenings—primarily to low-income and uninsured patients.
On Friday afternoon, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — and must undo the actions already taken to dismantle it — while the case proceeds.
THANK YOU PUBLIC CITIZEN for bringing this -- I donate!
THANK YOU PUBLIC CITIZEN for bringing this -- I donate!
March 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
On Friday afternoon, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — and must undo the actions already taken to dismantle it — while the case proceeds.
THANK YOU PUBLIC CITIZEN for bringing this -- I donate!
THANK YOU PUBLIC CITIZEN for bringing this -- I donate!
A wonderful writing group at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder led, unexpectedly, to this:
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Decluttering Revisited– What About All Those Memories?
Photo by Aga Adamek on Unsplash We have memories throughout our lives. My youngest granddaughter, about to turn 8, talks about them often – a particularly engaging dream in the past, a game t…
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March 20, 2025 at 3:49 AM
A wonderful writing group at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder led, unexpectedly, to this:
karensdescant.com/2025/03/19/d...
karensdescant.com/2025/03/19/d...
Decluttering Revisited– What About All Those Memories?
Photo by Aga Adamek on Unsplash We have memories throughout our lives. My youngest granddaughter, about to turn 8, talks about them often – a particularly engaging dream in the past, a game that we used to play when she was “little” (last…
Photo by Aga Adamek on Unsplash We have memories throughout our lives. My youngest granddaughter, about to turn 8, talks about them often – a particularly engaging dream in the past, a game that we used to play when she was “little” (last…
Decluttering Revisited– What About All Those Memories?
Photo by Aga Adamek on Unsplash We have memories throughout our lives. My youngest granddaughter, about to turn 8, talks about them often – a particularly engaging dream in the past, a game that we used to play when she was “little” (last year) but don’t anymore, something that she used to be but is not now (meat eater to vegetarian).
karensdescant.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Decluttering Revisited– What About All Those Memories?
Photo by Aga Adamek on Unsplash We have memories throughout our lives. My youngest granddaughter, about to turn 8, talks about them often – a particularly engaging dream in the past, a game that we used to play when she was “little” (last…
Photo by Aga Adamek on Unsplash We have memories throughout our lives. My youngest granddaughter, about to turn 8, talks about them often – a particularly engaging dream in the past, a game that we used to play when she was “little” (last…
I no longer live in Minnesota, but I know an important institution like the Loft, which I dearly miss, needs to be celebrated...no one better able to capture this than Mark Gustafson
March 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I no longer live in Minnesota, but I know an important institution like the Loft, which I dearly miss, needs to be celebrated...no one better able to capture this than Mark Gustafson
Do you want to keep up-to-date with the sustained efforts to to turn the US into The Republic of Gilead? Follow Jessica Valenti's detailed coverage about abortion legislation -- it's on Substack: jessica.substack.com
Abortion, Every Day | Jessica Valenti | Substack
All things abortion. Feminist commentary & community. Click to read Abortion, Every Day, a Substack publication.
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March 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Do you want to keep up-to-date with the sustained efforts to to turn the US into The Republic of Gilead? Follow Jessica Valenti's detailed coverage about abortion legislation -- it's on Substack: jessica.substack.com
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March 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
SIGN UP FOR Five Calls, and make them! It is easy and allows your voice to be counted: 5calls.org And donate, of course -- providing this service is not free!
I just used Five Calls to tell my Rep/Senators to protest the unlawful arrest and incarceration of Mahmoud Khalil. Irrespective of your feelings about the content of his protest, he is a legal resident of the United States: If he can be arrested/deported, who will be next?
March 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I just used Five Calls to tell my Rep/Senators to protest the unlawful arrest and incarceration of Mahmoud Khalil. Irrespective of your feelings about the content of his protest, he is a legal resident of the United States: If he can be arrested/deported, who will be next?
times are hard--how can we find hope? karensdescant.com/2025/01/31/h...
Hope – Yet Again
Photo by Ian Taylor on Unsplash The older I get, the more I rely on hope. I last wrote about hope at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, when uncertainty and dread predominated around the world a…
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February 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
times are hard--how can we find hope? karensdescant.com/2025/01/31/h...
U of Minnesota solicits Social Justice grants that "aim to catalyze rigorous, solution-oriented research on..,topics, including criminal justice reform, housing segregation/gentrification, systemic racism, achievement gaps, health disparities, environmental justice, and related topics. #umn proud
February 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
U of Minnesota solicits Social Justice grants that "aim to catalyze rigorous, solution-oriented research on..,topics, including criminal justice reform, housing segregation/gentrification, systemic racism, achievement gaps, health disparities, environmental justice, and related topics. #umn proud
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The People’s Union is forming! The 24 Hour Economic Blackout is February 28th
Visit: ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com
Visit: ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com
The Peoples Union
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February 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The People’s Union is forming! The 24 Hour Economic Blackout is February 28th
Visit: ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com
Visit: ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com