Narrative Responsibility
Elena Wolf
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The Ethics of a Sauron Gaze
Or, Why Would You Want to Share Your Story, Anyway? Well, the tl;dl is that people both want and fear being seen as they are in equal measure. So, then, was Sauron's bigger sin making the One Ring…
Whose Story Is It, Anyway?
An ethical topic to consider in the age of social media and content creation: Does your story belong only to you, or do others have any rights over it? Under what circumstances might it be valid to…
On Being Diagnosed with ADHD (Retrospection in Action)
Settle in for a double-length episode of Storytime with Auntie E where I talk about how I got diagnosed with ADHD in middle age, why it wasn't caught any sooner despite some pretty…
How Shimmers That Innocent Light
Some thoughts about our cultural concept of innocence, specifically the innocence of childhood, and an outline of the authoritarian parenting style, and how these are playing out in current events.…
Synthetic Thinking
A sort of companion episode to "The Frogs, the Poets, and the Fools." Is thinking a broad or specific verb? Should it be used only for analytical and logical tasks, or can it also be a more organic…
My Kink Is Being Understood
Some thoughts about comprehension, the inadequacies of language, and the fundamental pointlessness of generative AI for translating individual human experience into a form someone else might possibly…
Murderbot's Guide to Consciousness
Did you know that fiction is one of the best tools we have for deeply understanding another person's experience of consciousness? Pull up a chair, it's story time with Auntie E, and she's got a tale…
Mental Load: The Pink Tax on Women's Mental Health
The mental load of CARING about the emotional and existential experience of everyone in a household is often carried by women. This invisible burden contributes to heightened stress and poorer mental…
MTBI Type in Context
Our relationship to our own MBTI type - as well as other type preferences - is often a result of the family and culture we grew up in. Those experiences impact what we seek in adult relationships and…
Types of Intimacy
So...what kind of relationship do you want? What roles do you want to play in your romantic partnership? And how might you show up differently in one relationship vs. another? Come explore the types…
What MBTI Type Should I Date?
Part One. Because there is just too much that goes into the question of why you should date any particular person than their MBTI type, and also because there is more that goes into how you view…
The Frogs, the Poets, and the Fools: A Meditation on Mindfulness
A somewhat pedantic ramble about what is meant by "thoughts" and "thinking" and "emptying the mind" in the context of mindfulness practices. Bonus content: the actual point of mindfulness, why…
The Answer Is 42
We all know the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, is 42. And we know the best approximation of this canonically unknowable question is "How many roads must a…
The ADHD (Dis)Connection
ADHD and disconnection from the body amplify and reinforce each other. Disruptive ADHD symptoms make the body less comfortable for the conscious mind to inhabit, but being disconnected from the…
The Female Body As Object
CW: language, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and unwanted sexual attention. Western culture has a terrible history of treating the female body as an object that exists for the pleasure - or…
Subjugating the Body
We do not exist as islands unto ourselves. We are plugged into cultural systems of belief and behavior, and those systems deeply impact our relationship to ourselves and what we internalize as normal…
Movement, Not Exercise
Geting more movement getting more into your body is often pushed as a panacea to many health and mental health issues. But exercising in a way that makes your body uncomfortable or even distressed…
Your Discomfort Zone
Ever heard the phrase "get out of your comfort zone" and just felt something in you just tense up with rejection at the thought of doing even more than you already are? Maybe your discomfort zone…
Our Two Selves
If we're gonna talk about letting go of copes, we gotta talk about why we were doing them in the first place. Which means looking at the schism between our "self that acts" - our conscious, egoic…
Sober Curious
When was the last time you critically examined your relationship with alcohol - or any other substance - and considered sobriety? Pull up a chair for storytime as I walk you through my journey of…
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Narrative Responsibility has published 54 episodes since October 2023, covering topics in Education, Health & Fitness.
Narrative Responsibility is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 31m.
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