Category: Mental Health
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Topless Topics Update: State of Mom’s Cancer, Compromising Between Content Creation and Parenting
I’m behind on uploads because my parents haven’t been able to babysit and it’s impossible to get anything done when I’m keeping the newborn and toddler in check. I hope to have the next newsletter summarizing everything that’s been going on soon, sign up here if you haven’t already: toplesstopics.org/toplesstopicsmailinglist/ You may also be interested in…
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Topless Topics: Another Shooting, Another Mental Illness Excuse
Oh boy. I was just gonna rant about the discomfort of being forever pregnant, but the beginning of this video turned into a rant about convenient excuses to avoid taking actual action to limit gun violence instead. The whole video was 40+ minutes long so I split it up by topic, this is the gun…
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Topless Topics Hatemail Response: Rape Culture and You
Hello friends, welcome to 2018! I was hoping to start the year off on a more positive note, but then I got this lovely textbook example of toxic masculinity and rape culture in my inbox and, well, I thought it was worth talking about. I promise I will put greater effort into future videos to…
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Fan Response Video: Depression response (Topless Topics)
In response to my recent “Topless Topics Life Update: Pooping, Pregnancy and Suicidal Thoughts” vlog, supersupporter Brian Julien has shared this tragic and traumatic recounting of his own very justified struggle with depression, after a series of loved ones passed within a short time. Brian, I sincerely thank you for laying yourself bare like this,…
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Life Update: Pooping, Pregnancy and Suicidal Thoughts
Sorry about the long gap between videos, but as you’ll find out if you watch this one, I’ve been dealing with a LOT of depression lately that’s made it really hard to get up the energy to do much of anything, let alone record and edit videos that I know I’m gonna get hundreds of…