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Lisa Richardson

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Theater administrator with interests in art, rowing, music, language, education, & science. Proud Terp '08 and YSD '19! Thoughts are my own. She/Her :)

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Opinion: Could you do more by doing less?

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By Lisa Richardson
| Pique NewsMagazine Verified
I tookmy second coffee of the day outside. This already felt like a transgression. Coffee is for optimizing. One takes it to think faster, type faster, stay focused, be more on. So, it felt radical to not carry it back to my desk, where work and wakefulness and focus-needs awaited—to wander, instead, by a nearby creek, mug in hand, phone left behind. I had a Moment. I won’t describe it because everybody hates the long boring descriptive nature bits in novels and skims ahead to get to more plot.
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Stigma Resistance by Adult Self-Advocates With Intellectual Disabilities

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By UCL MRC Unit, Lisa Richardson, Nikos Sarras
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction Being labelled as a person with intellectual disabilities confers a stigmatised status (Beart et al. 2005; Scior and Werner 2016). Stigmatisation is a process by which members of a group are marginalised for possessing a devalued attribute, what Goffman (1963) referred to as a ‘spoiled identity’. Importantly, the ‘labelling’ and devaluation result in loss of status and power for affected individuals (Link and Phelan 2001; Pescosolido and Martin 2015).
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Opinion: On the power of pep talks

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By Lisa Richardson
| Pique NewsMagazine Verified
I gave a few pep talks this week. I have no way of knowing if my lightly solicited effusive texts of encouragement actually landed in the zone. The recipients said thanks, but I say “thank you” even when someone gives me a speeding ticket, so that’s no proof of value. I was on the receiving end of a few motivational boosters, too. And they were bulls-eye perfect. I got to wondering: what puts the pep in the talk?
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