Texas Girl Writes

Author: Texasgirlwrites

  • RFK and The Anti-Vax Movement

    RFK and The Anti-Vax Movement

    On February 13th, Robert F. Kennedy Jr (RFK) was confirmed as the Human Services Secretary. Over the course of 2025, Courtney and I watched the slow decline of our public health system commence under the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” plan.

  • The Environmental Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    The Environmental Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    Understanding how AI negatively impacts the environment involves a willingness to shift our behavior and perspectives around our relationship with nature. The arguments in defense of AI disregard its e. i (environmental impact) since humans are considered destructive without application. Apathy is a strong factor in climate denialism and doomerism.

  • The problem with money: Unemployment, Capitalism and Anger

    The problem with money: Unemployment, Capitalism and Anger

    The pervasiveness of money in every aspect of our lives drives us to develop a material fixation, after all, it has the power to change reality. In exchange for riches, we have to jump through arbitrary hoops for a chance to be good workers, budding capitalists. Keeping it real about capitalism, “it is simply obvious…

  • Before the polls open: moving past step one

    Before the polls open: moving past step one

    Voting is much more than the physical process; one truly must make a conscious choice to endorse, fund, or defend the actions that follow the ballot.

  • The Ballot or the Bullet: 60 years later

    The Ballot or the Bullet: 60 years later

    April 3, 1964, Malcolm X gave one one of his last speeches, “The Ballot ot the Bullet.” His message about voter consciousness is still relevant in 2024. Many voters believe in the importance of Malcolm’s radicalism but are idly standing by while today’s activists are targeted.