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I'm Lily J. Cunningham, and I write to cope with the realities we live in. I started this website to connect with others, and to help them also connect to their own feelings about the current events in our shared environments.

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What’s Known About Ohio’s Proposed Anti-Trans Healthcare Policy

Republican Mike DeWine has sent millions to the Ohio Department...

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Ohio Governor Overrides Democratic Healthcare

What do the new Administrative orders for the Ohio Department...

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Before Abortion

In late June of 2022, Illinois Republican representative Mary Miller...

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Abortion Is Legal in Ohio

Abortion Fund of Ohio has helped Ohioans access safe abortions...

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How Should the People Respond to the Undemocratic Ohio GOP?

Ohio Republicans Bill Dean, Melanie Miller, Beth Lear, and Jennifer...

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Pastors Push Politics at Ohio Pulpit

I’d posted online to speak to Ohio congregants told to...

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Vote For Issue 1 To Protect Reproductive Rights In Ohio

Everything to Know About the Vote to Pass Issue 1...

Mount Olive Baptist Church, church and cemetery of the late Reverend Jacob Cossart, my seventh great-grandfather, and father of Mary Cozad, grandfather of Charity Hinesman.

White Supremacy Lies I Used To Believe

I wrote about being raised to be a Christian Nationalist...

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Racism as a Legacy Burden

My therapist introduced me to the concept of legacy burdens....

Image of the cast in costume from Showtime's series The Tudors. Left to right are Gabrielle Anwar as Margaret Tudor; Sam Neill as Bishop Thomas Wolsey in a red cap and red robe; Jeremy Northam as Sir Thomas More in black, standing next to the Bishop. Seated before him in black wearing a crown is Maria Doyle Kennedy playing the role of Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England and Catholic daughter of the Queen of Castille and King of Aragon; beside her standing in gold wearing a crown is Natalie Dormer as Lady Anne Boelyn, Mistress to King Henry VIII and Queen of England; next to her on the right of the image, seated, is Jonathan Rhys Meyers, playing King Henry VIII, King of England

White Supremacy Starts In The Family

I was raised in white supremacy - having learned it...

What Is Grooming? Ohio Republicans Know

Ohio Republicans continue to define grooming incorrectly -- and their...

Normalizing White Christian Nationalism Is Killing Everyone.

In America white supremacy norms are collectively accepted and facilitate...

Being Poor Isn’t the Only Barrier To Barbie

Being poor might not always be the only reason a...

White Racist Violence Is Out Of Control

Racist violence isn’t new. It’s as old as the United...

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Stop White Nationalism

All non-racist white people have a duty to use white...

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What Is Gender Affirming Care In Therapy?

Part of the conversation that’s overlooked is gender-affirming care in...

Identity Christians and the Republican Party

Identity Christians are anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-Black, Republican Party darlings who...

Ohio House Bill 83 Endangers Education

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are the very core of the...

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Therapist Lily Cunningham (they/them) received their master’s in education from Cleveland State University in 2013. They make their home in Dublin with their spouse and children. Their writing has been featured on The Columbus Dispatch.

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