I totally love your little girl self. LOVE.

As an inner-city Houston English teacher, I respond directly to the social studies mandates by choosing both fiction and non-fiction materials that fight the bullshit. My students are 94% minorities, and I'm just not having it. Not under my watch.

I started playing AD&D, 2nd edition, not long after it came out. First edition stuff was still in stores. I was a little girl, still in elementary school, but very precocious and I loved fantasy/SF everything.

I was waiting for it, and here it is. I can’t tell you how fucking sick I got of constant rape scenarios in playing RPGs. I’ll post my own experiences after I scroll through and read what’s already up.

Wow, insensitive much?

My kiddo was terrified of something that played on the PBS Kids morning show called Dirt Girl World. Terrified to the point of freezing, wide-eyed, and making horrible little choking sounds before screaming and finally being able to run and hide, shrieking from his hiding place for me to TURN IT OFF NOW.

From one single mother to another, I fucking love you.

They are completely overloaded, and only do extremely limited work. They will prepare simple documents for specific situations. They almost never take on a lengthy, complicated case, especially when custody is a factor. Lawyers just can't sink their time and resources into the kind of high conflict cases domestic…

My ex took all our funds when I fled him. It didn't matter that I had no access to any money, I didn't qualify for legal assistance because my income on paper was too high.

I’m going through a parental alienation/supervised visitation nightmare myself. One huge red flag I can see in this case is that they seem to be forcing the mother to participate directly in the supervised visits, as the supervisor. My situation also included domestic violence, with me as the victim, in front of our…

It’s such a weird phenomenon. Consciously, I’ll feel calm and well-prepared. And if someone were to ask me if I were afraid of speaking in public, I’d say no. But the moment I begin, my body starts reacting. I’ll feel fine, mentally, but I’ll start sweating, and my hands and voice will shake terribly. My doctor gave…

I have watched two women die slowly and in agony after deciding to treat their cancers with woo, and I've watched the people who surrounded them urge them to continue with the magical thinking, all up until the end. The pain was so bad. And so unnecessary. Fuck this woman and everyone like her.

Holy crap. I will never get over the extreme disrespect and even violation of basic human rights and decency that women have to deal with while we’re at our most vulnerable. I’ve posted here before about my friend who had a natural C-section. Long story short, the doctor’s impatience and needless intervention caused…

When I was in labor with my son in 2010, he shifted right onto my spine. Back labor is excruciating, and I have scoliosis with nerve damage on top of that. I asked the nurse to help me reposition myself to take some of the pressure off my back. She snapped at me to shut up and let her do her charts, and continued to…

No, a man can’t sign away his parental rights and be done with child support. It’s very difficult to get someone’s parental rights terminated, even voluntarily. I’m going to put this the same blunt way my lawyer put it, “The state does not consider it in the best interests of a child to render him or her a bastard.”

I know someone with this issue who paid an artist a very small fee (just to cover materials/time) to do a “dry run.” He did a couple of patches on her leg and arm without ink to see if she had any reaction to the metal of the needle. She didn’t, by the way.

Me too!

Nope. I’ve also tried natural baking-soda based deodorant creams (several brands, similar to the primal pits stuff elsewhere on this thread). Within a few days to a few weeks, every single one of them has given me hideous red rashes as well. I think it may have to do with the microbiome and pH levels.

Nope. I’ve also tried natural baking-soda based deodorant creams (several brands, similar to the primal pits stuff…

I used crystal deodorant for a few years until I suddenly sensitized to it. All the sudden, I had firepits from hell— bright, red rash and open fissures. I have no idea why, but suddenly couldn't tolerate it.

I used crystal deodorant for a few years until I suddenly sensitized to it. All the sudden, I had firepits from…

When I first read Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, I wanted a Julia book so very badly. Imagine my glee when the 2nd book alternated between the original protagonist and Julia— and exceeded my hopes. She’s one of my favorite characters ever.