Sheltering Life is the personal website of Melanie Lynn Carlson. Sheltering is an active verb that indicate's a holistic and structural perspective to address social problems. Melanie is a scholar, educator, writer, advocate, and activist.    

Melanie L. Carlson, MSW

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Your Kink Is Health Care? Good Luck, Babe, American Prospect

MCA: Shining the Spotlight on the Octopus’s Hollywood Tentacle, Covert Action Magazine

What We Miss When we Blame the Individual, Lady Science

Celebrities Shed Light on Mental Health Stigma, But Little Else, Giddy

In the Red Zone: The Culture of Campus Sexual Assaults, Giddy

Supermom and Supercrip: Being a Mom With Disabilities, Giddy

Bipolar Disorder, Parkinson’s Syndrome and Me, Giddy

Stalk Photos: How #FreeBritney Reporting STILL Rewards the Paparazzi, Medium

It Happened to Me: I Needed a Social Worker and Then I Became One, Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program’s Living with Bipolar Series. Originally published on xoJane.

When a Mental Health Crisis Happens at Work, Addiction.com

Purple is The New Black, Arlingtonian


”Piper the BeltLine Kitty,” Originally posted on Imgur PDF, became an Editor's Pick on CNN iReport (February 14/15?, 2013; defunct link), Piper got a Facebook & Twitter that same day and then went viral (Huffpost, CNN, Yahoo News, Catmeow.com, Atlanta Beltline, Creative Loafing etc.)

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This is my personal website to host my work on the prevailing social issues of today, which are often the persistent issues of yesterday.

This site launched on September 14, 2016.