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Girls With Slingshots - GWS Hair of the Dog #793
Dec. 10th, 2025 10:00 pmgirlswithslingshots_feed
Girls With Slingshots - GWS Hair of the Dog #792
Dec. 9th, 2025 10:00 pmgirlswithslingshots_feed
New comic!
Today's News:
Ah, my once-per-rerun excuse to feature my old friend Lauren Beacham, who used to make GWS-themed jewelry! She wound up selling her jewelry business Yugen, which specializes in space-themed pieces, so she's no longer in charge of it, but it's still around. :)
The First Asian American Rabbi: Angela Buchdahl
Dec. 9th, 2025 07:00 pm8asians_feed
I read about the first Asian American Rabbi, Angela Buchdahl, in an article talking about her visit to San Francisco synagogue. She was promoting her recently published book, Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging. I haven’t yet read her book, and to learn more about her, I listened to the interview embedded above. Buchdahl tells a fascinating story about her journey from as a biracial child in Seoul to becoming a highly influential and followed rabbi. She is the senior rabbi of a Central Synagogue, major synagogue in Manhattan. The Central Synagogue’s YouTube channel has over 70,000 subscribers.
The notion of being a “stranger” resonates with me as an Asian American. The title made me think of another book, Strangers from a Different Shore by Ronald Takaki. It also reminded me of the feeling of many Asian Americans that they feel that they don’t fit in in either Asia or in the United States. In the interview, Buchdahl tells the story of playing with Korean children when she was a child. They asked her where she was from, and she said to them in Korean that she was from Korea. The other children told her that she was not.
There are a lot of interesting subjects discussed in this interview, including her views on the new New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and on the relationship between disagreements, debate, and democracy in US society. It’s an hour long, but well worth the listen.
The post The First Asian American Rabbi: Angela Buchdahl appeared first on 8Asians | An Asian American collaborative blog.
Girls With Slingshots - GWS Hair of the Dog #791
Dec. 8th, 2025 10:00 pmgirlswithslingshots_feed
New comic!
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Idk what it is about this wedding, but I feel like Zach and Hazel swapped their drunken habits over the last 48 hours. Is it wrong that I like it? Drunk Zach is cute!
Girls With Slingshots - GWS Hair of the Dog #790
Dec. 7th, 2025 10:00 pmgirlswithslingshots_feed
New comic!
Today's News:
I hope this creates at least one "I was today years old" moment for someone who is about to learn that you used to have to use a third-party website called Twitpic to share photos on Twitter, back in 2009. Because I kinda forgot.
Here's the original black-and-white post! Here's the color chaser!
Sunday Secrets
Dec. 7th, 2025 12:03 ampost_secret_feed
While reading the secrets this early Sunday morning, I came across one that I connected with me instantly – the postcard about you (Frank) never receiving the sender secret and that they are the only one who knows about it.
I’ve had that question on my mind a lot very recently. I myself have sent you at least a ‘few’ secrets over the last 2 decades since I first met you at a bookstore signing in NYC around 2006. Like many others, I have never seen them get posted as I’m sure you get thousands weekly. It makes me wonder if my own postcards just fall through the cracks of the postal system or do they actually get to you. In addition, I think about who may see my postcard while on its journey to you and what they may think or react to reading them, if they read them at all.
I love postsecret and the community it has created for so many to connect with others & be open and honest with themselves. I guess for some of us, especially me, the release or letting go of our secrets into the world (anonymously via postcard) doesn’t always mean we are releasing ourselves from the secret.
We just want someone to tell it to and not all of us have that someone.
It really sucks when you have no one to be turn to or talk to and feel the only way you may be heard and/or not judged is by sending secrets via the postal mail.
So in anonymity, I say to that secret sharer: I may not know your secret but I hear you and see your secret. I hope we both can share our secrets in the future.
The post Sunday Secrets appeared first on PostSecret.
Classic Secrets
Dec. 7th, 2025 12:01 ampost_secret_feed
It says:
“I have kept the last 2.5 pills in this bottle on my dresser since 2005
to remind me of where I’m not.”
Thank you for all that you do.
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