defang [dee-fang / diˈfæŋ] verb (used with object) to remove the fangs of: to defang a snake. to cause to become less powerful or threatening; render harmless. Corporation Name: Amazon, Inc. Year Established: 1994 Industry: Internet Retail Headquarters: Seattle, WA, USA Annual Revenue (2020): $386 billion (UAE’s annual GDP is $383…

Interview with Founder of the Brave Sis Project, Rozella Kennedy One thing you should know about Rozella Kennedy is that she’s always been this way. Growing up in New York City in the 70s and 80s — one of the world’s most diverse places at the time — she always imagined for herself other possibilities outside of those typical for…

Who was Karen Horney? By all accounts, Dr. Karen Horney was a pioneer in the field of psychology. Reared in Germany at a time when women were excluded from higher education, Horney attended medical school at the University of Freiburg, the University of Göttingen, and the University of Berlin before graduating with her M.D…

The bite took a few seconds to register. When it did, I slid down the refrigerator and onto my bottom, face hot with embarrassment and my own coursing blood. …

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I am certain you, a person loving and supporting a person who has a mental illness, understand that it’s not your “fault”. I know you know — intellectually, to be sure — that there’s not much you or anyone else can do to “fix” Mr. Phelps. …