July 2019

Reading Time: 5 minutes By:  Janette Dalgliesh – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know.…

Reading Time: < 1 minute ‘You don’t think that having 10,000 officers in a violent, racist group sharing rape memes of members of Congress points to any concern?’ — AOC pressed the DHS sec after he denied a culture of dehumanization within Border Patrol

Reading Time: 8 minutes Trump is forcing conservatives to confront the real reason their base hates Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Reading Time: 3 minutes What looks like clutter to one person may feel like an exuberant homage to maximalism to you.

What looks like haphazard housekeeping from the outside might just mean that you’re finding your rhythm on the inside.

And if you have zero idea what “sparks joy” or doesn’t, letting usefulness be your metric is not a cop-out. (I can feel my blood boiling as I remember a client telling me this! *grrrrr)

Reading Time: 3 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Post’s Geoffrey Fowler has five questions you ought to ask about any app or service, including FaceApp, that wants something as personal as your face.

Reading Time: 7 minutes Forget “pot brownies.” While this classic cannabis concoction is still immensely popular, there are plenty of other recipes that include cannabis plant on the list of ingredients.

Reading Time: 11 minutes Having spent 10 years working with women and girls subjected to sexual and domestic violence of all kinds, I have never had a case or a caseload in which the woman or girl was not being blamed for what someone else (usually a man) was doing to her. Sometimes she is blamed by her family, sometimes by her partner. Sometimes she is blamed by police or by social workers. Sometimes it’s the mental health team blaming her.

Victim blaming is the act of transferring the blame from the perpetrator (who is 100% to blame for sexual offences they commit) and moving that blame back to the victim of the sexual offences.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the…

Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the Democratic lawmakers criticized by President Trump’s racist attacks in recent days called the President’s remarks a “disruptive distraction” and said that she would encourage the American people “to not take the bait.” https://cnn.it/2xQrsHW