Risa

Risa has a Masters and Bachelors degree in Social Work. She is a Mental Health Therapist who has worked in child abuse prevention, adoption, domestic violence and sexual assault trauma recovery. She is a mother of 4 and in her spare time she is a voracious reader, snarker, and subversive cross-stitcher.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Trigger warning for mentions of sexual assault, rape, and abuse. I'm a mental health therapist in Utah and treat many survivors of first and second-hand...

You’ve No Power Here

There is a pivotal moment in "The Wizard of Oz" when in Munchkinland Glinda is protecting Dorothy from the Wicked Witch of the West and...

In memoriam: Rebecca van Uitert and Jason Howell

It is with great sadness that the Exponent II memorializes a woman of great stature and her husband. Rebecca van Uitert and her husband,...

In Memoriam: bell hooks

bell hooks, largely regarded as the Mother of Black Feminism, died yesterday at the age of 69. We at The Exponent II feel it's...

Nice is different than good

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a song in their hymn book called Do what is Right. The chorus reminds us...

God sent you a life raft

I don't remember if it is a parable or an old satirical cartoon, but there is the story of a drowning man caught in...

The Story is Not About How We Left

At this April's Bi-annual General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Russell M. Nelson made some curious statements about...

Ma’Khia Bryant – Say Her Name

On April 20, 2021, 20 minutes before the Derek Chauvin verdict was read (guilty on all 3 counts), police officers in Columbus, Ohio shot...
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