By www.iHeartToby.com
May 10, 2021
Influencers are great for a fashion tip or a makeup tutorial, but perhaps it’s best we leave the mental health advice to the professionals. At least that’s what psychology professionals are saying. They too have seen the rise in ‘mental health influencers’ sharing info online and they’ve got a few gripes you should be aware of before you self-diagnose with the help of TikTok.
● Unverified. The #MentalHealth has been watched 9 billion times on TikTok and you don’t have to scroll far before hitting videos that aren’t based on science. For example, you have some saying casual sex is self-harm and another telling viewers that worrying about losing your phone means you have social anxiety. And it’s not like these social media platforms have fact-checkers vetting claims so it’s left to the audience to vet such claims. And who has time for that?
By www.iHeartToby.com
May 10, 2021
Influencers are great for a fashion tip or a makeup tutorial, but perhaps it’s best we leave the mental health advice to the professionals. At least that’s what psychology professionals are saying. They too have seen the rise in ‘mental health influencers’ sharing info online and they’ve got a few gripes you should be aware of before you self-diagnose with the help of TikTok.
● Unverified. The #MentalHealth has been watched 9 billion times on TikTok and you don’t have to scroll far before hitting videos that aren’t based on science. For example, you have some saying casual sex is self-harm and another telling viewers that worrying about losing your phone means you have social anxiety. And it’s not like these social media platforms have fact-checkers vetting claims so it’s left to the audience to vet such claims. And who has time for that?
My daughter’s 18th birthday left me reflecting on the author’s wise words about experience and memory
Judith Kerr: ‘The second half is all the years to follow.’ Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images
Judith Kerr: ‘The second half is all the years to follow.’ Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images
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My younger daughter celebrated her 18th birthday last week and I was reminded of something that the great children’s writer Judith Kerr said to me, well into her own 95th and final year: “We live our lives in two distinct halves,” she said, over lunch, with all her twinkling brightness intact. “The first half lasts until we are 18 and the second is all the years that follow.”
Simina Popescu s Leap Graphic Novel to be Published by Roaring Brook
Simina Popescu s Leap Graphic Novel to be Published by Roaring Brook
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Leap, to be published by
Mekisha Telfer at Roaring Brook in the spring of 2024.
Leap is described as a queer coming-of-age YA graphic novel about two dancers navigating adolescence, their sexuality, first love, and heartache in a conservative post-communist city.
Simina Popescu s Leap Graphic Novel to be Published by Roaring Brook Press in 2024.
Simina Popescu is an illustrator, cartoonist, and occasional graphic designer, with a BA in Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and classes at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and currently living in Romania again, courtesy of the current global pandemic. Her work also appeared in
May 6, 2021 3:34 pm
Plans to slash arts funding by 50% have been labelled “destructive” and “short-sighted” by university heads speaking to Design Week.
A consultation lead by the Office for Students (OfS) and education secretary Gavin Williamson has proposed halving the amount spent on “high cost” higher education subjects like design, art, music and drama.
The justification is that these subjects and those like them are not considered “strategic priorities” for the government and country. These cuts would make way for high-cost subjects that
are priorities, such as medicine, veterinary science, other sciences and IT.
Funding could shrink from £36m to £19m