{"id":16949,"date":"2019-01-07T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16949"},"modified":"2019-01-02T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T23:06:41","slug":"lets-talk-resolutions-worth-keeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/01\/07\/lets-talk-resolutions-worth-keeping\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Talk<\/em>: Resolutions worth keeping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OMG, peeps: I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s already 2019 and we\u2019re back at it again. Hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year\u2019s. I\u2019m assuming (as my deadline for this was back in December) that I made it until about 9 pm before falling asleep watching Titanic<\/em> with my cat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we enter a new year, many of us will have made a resolution of some kind. If you\u2019re anything like me, and you\u2019re reading this in the latter half of the publishing cycle, I\u2019m guessing your resolve is slipping. Be honest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s Talk?<\/em> is a column exploring women’s rights issues; it’s in every issue of Nexus<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The only New Year\u2019s resolution I made that ever stuck was my 2017 vow to lose weight, which was more about my determination to not be obese when Donald Trump was inaugurated and blew up the world than it was about my heart health. Well, here we are, two years later and I\u2019m pleased to report that my resolution stuck and we\u2019re still in one piece\u2014at least physically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this year, with everything that\u2019s been going on, I feel like it might be time to recommit to resolutions, with the hope that they will stick with the same integrity as my 2017 one and not my 2018 one (also known as the great closet purge that simply resulted in bags of clothes in the back of my car that I still need to donate.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, here are my five 2019 resolutions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Speak up against injustice when I see it. This doesn\u2019t have to turn into a hero complex. It\u2019s not my job to rescue people, but it is my job to be an ally where and when I can. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Stop lowering my voice when I say I\u2019m a feminist. It\u2019s not a dirty word and should be celebrated. My name is Katy, and I am a FEMINIST!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) Be open-minded. I don\u2019t have all the answers (just ask my profs), I\u2019m not always right (just ask my boyfriend), and, while I may be opinionated AF, my opinion is simply that: my opinion, no more or less valid than anyone else\u2019s.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4) Drink less coffee (I don\u2019t care if you are reading this the first day it\u2019s on stands, I can guarantee you that I\u2019ve fallen off the bandwagon on this one).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5) Finally donate those pesky clothes in the back of my car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you everyone for an amazing 2018. We\u2019ve had our challenges, but look how far we\u2019ve come! We still have so far to go, but for the moment, let\u2019s celebrate our victories and resolve to continue to fight for a brighter 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OMG, peeps: I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s already 2019 and we\u2019re back at it again. Hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year\u2019s. I\u2019m assuming (as my deadline for this was back in December) that I made it until about 9 pm before falling asleep watching Titanic with my cat.  As we enter a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-january-7-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16950,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions\/16950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}