Heather
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Yes. Zionism is very considerate.
June 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Yes. Zionism is very considerate.
Hello, I’m Heather Smith—psychodynamic therapist, writer, and cultural critic. My work draws from psychoanalytic theory, disability studies, and systems thinking to explore the emotional and unconscious forces that shape our public life.
May 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Hello, I’m Heather Smith—psychodynamic therapist, writer, and cultural critic. My work draws from psychoanalytic theory, disability studies, and systems thinking to explore the emotional and unconscious forces that shape our public life.
Empathy is starting to look suspicious.
Not just on the right, but across the political spectrum.
A thread 🧵
Not just on the right, but across the political spectrum.
A thread 🧵
May 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Empathy is starting to look suspicious.
Not just on the right, but across the political spectrum.
A thread 🧵
Not just on the right, but across the political spectrum.
A thread 🧵
What if Anakin was never meant to be a villain
What if he was just a child punished for being afraid, taught to suppress grief, and then handed a war?
He didn’t fall. He fragmented.
May the 4th is for the broken ones too 🤍
What if he was just a child punished for being afraid, taught to suppress grief, and then handed a war?
He didn’t fall. He fragmented.
May the 4th is for the broken ones too 🤍
May 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
What if Anakin was never meant to be a villain
What if he was just a child punished for being afraid, taught to suppress grief, and then handed a war?
He didn’t fall. He fragmented.
May the 4th is for the broken ones too 🤍
What if he was just a child punished for being afraid, taught to suppress grief, and then handed a war?
He didn’t fall. He fragmented.
May the 4th is for the broken ones too 🤍
Pope Francis carried more than office.
He held a projection of mercy in power, softness in structure, hope inside the old shape of things.
His death isn’t just a loss. It’s a release of what we needed him to mean.
#PopeFrancis #HoldingSpace
He held a projection of mercy in power, softness in structure, hope inside the old shape of things.
His death isn’t just a loss. It’s a release of what we needed him to mean.
#PopeFrancis #HoldingSpace
April 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Pope Francis carried more than office.
He held a projection of mercy in power, softness in structure, hope inside the old shape of things.
His death isn’t just a loss. It’s a release of what we needed him to mean.
#PopeFrancis #HoldingSpace
He held a projection of mercy in power, softness in structure, hope inside the old shape of things.
His death isn’t just a loss. It’s a release of what we needed him to mean.
#PopeFrancis #HoldingSpace
We don’t just fear others. We fear what they stir in us.
And when that fear feels unbearable, we project it outward, onto bodies, beliefs, identities.
Not because they are dangerous, but because we’ve disowned something of ourselves. 1/2
And when that fear feels unbearable, we project it outward, onto bodies, beliefs, identities.
Not because they are dangerous, but because we’ve disowned something of ourselves. 1/2
April 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We don’t just fear others. We fear what they stir in us.
And when that fear feels unbearable, we project it outward, onto bodies, beliefs, identities.
Not because they are dangerous, but because we’ve disowned something of ourselves. 1/2
And when that fear feels unbearable, we project it outward, onto bodies, beliefs, identities.
Not because they are dangerous, but because we’ve disowned something of ourselves. 1/2