Then they should have explained themselves when corrected. This is not the time to be dismissing indigenous people on the issues affecting them. It’s not the time to spread misinformation about a people no matter how whimsical or christmasy cute we may seem.

I appreciate that you acknowledge you don’t know Sami culture. My mother is Finnish Sami, and I am Sami. Sami have been heavily affected by the dominant cultures of the countries we live in and Lutheranism and Russian Orthodoxy, to the point it’s almost impossible to separate them. Patriarchy with the religions has…

No it is not.

My mother is Finnish Sami, and I am Sami. There is a troll here lying about Sami culture and dismissing my knowledge of Sami culture on an article about the abuse of Sami and neglect by the national authorities.

I don’t know where you heard this but it is simply untrue. My mother is Finnish Sami. That is a Sami storehouse. It is meant for storing food up high where animals cannot easily get to it. It is made by cutting down trees growing close together as a platform, not from seed. It would take thirty or fifty years to…

I’m pretty sure I was a “Samantha” as a child.

I’m pretty sure I was a “Samantha” as a child.

I was taught to hug people I didn’t want to hug, and I think this idea contributed to my being unable to speak up about inappropriate touches from a “beloved” family member for years. I was very well aware of swimsuit areas that were private, and that no one should touch me except maybe doctors sometimes. Yet the…

Have sex with them right after a shower so you can tell if it’s a cleanliness issue or something else. Or shower with them if you want to be extra sure they’re cleaning those places.

This reminds me of a family recipe for 40 clove garlic soup. It’s only made when someone has a fever, and they will stink for three days of garlic, but my grandmother used to swear by it. Some of the garlic was oven roasted and puréed, and some was sautéed, other cloves just minced, with other veggies. It was good…

Never heard of Parker House rolls in my life. Had to google, and I guess they’re a thing, but I’m pretty sure everyone else in the us just calls them rolls? What makes them different? 

Household hours are super important. I work nights usually and am a night owl, like I typically go to be between 5-7 a.m. And wake up between 1:30-3 p.m. If I know a household gets loud around lunchtime, I do make an effort to be up around noon and have lunch with them, but it’s hard.

My uncle contracted polio in 1955. He spent some time in an iron lung, but I don’t remember how long. Since then he has been an active man with a smaller left leg and considerable limp requiring a cane. He has married and had three sons, now with a few grandkids. The wife of one of his sons was reluctant to…

Hahah at 16! What the fuck? Ten. Try ten. I’m thirty and have spent twenty years spending 12-20 dollars a month onmenstruation supplies. This will continue for another twenty years at least.

Bomba Estereo! Yay!

I used to read a few street fashion photography blogs, but I’m otherwise not much into the fashion world.

I have migraines with aura ( the fun visual hallucinations ), and have had them since I started my period at ten. In my early twenties, I stopped eating meat for the most part and that really helped. I realized the correlation when I had some ham at a holiday party and had a migraine kick in a few hours later. I…

I don’t know anyone under the age of 2 or over 65. I work from home. I literally leave my house and garden maybe once a week to eat at a restaurant or go to a bar. The flu shot has always seemed silly to me. I’m not going to be a Typhoid Mary level vector even if I did catch it.

This is especially true at the end of a growing season here in Michigan, and for people in milder climates it has to be a big issue. I could leave my pots unwatered in hot sun for a weekend in June and they were fine, but if I had done that in August they would all have died.

Tracking my spending in my early twenties showed me just how much I was spending on beer and other intoxicants, that when I did the math for what a decade of that would be I was fucking astonished. So I suggest tracking your spending for a few months, and seeing if you have anything that seems small to you in the…