You’re welcome! And I don’t want to be a wet blanket, because private clinics that subsidize the costs of abortions do make a difference. I forgot to add above, the Morgentaler Clinic was a literal lifeline for women for over 35 years. So for the time it was there, it was incredibly important.

Someone did this in New Brunswick, Canada. It was the Morgentaler Clinic. He died, and the money dried up, and the clinic closed (it MAY have been reopened as a private abortion clinic, but I’m having trouble finding info). It’s left the entire Atlantic area in a bit of a pickle (especially for residents of PEI, where…

It has taken me years (almost a decade) to convince my mother that feminism isn’t some dirty hippie thing. She came of age during the bra-burnin’ days—like, how did she miss learning even the basics? She finally came around to it when misogyny explicitly affected her (of course); a male boss wouldn’t stop making lewd…

Nobody wins. Bella left a pile of junk on the floor and Selena didn’t make the bed and what is that—an office chair? Does no one care about staging?! Backgrounds are important!

It is delightful! Someone I know was unimpressed because it was formulaic, but I thought that was the whole point. Forget La La Land, Sing Street is the sweetest, campiest ode to movie musicals (of the 80s variety). Everyone in my family who came of age in the 80s loved it.

Jesus, I’ve been thinking this was about JPII (my mom enthusiastically announces how hot young JPII was whenever any pope is mentioned).

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As with any march, the Women’s March is successfully placing a huge (ugh, sorry) number of people on streets across America at a key moment in American history. Marching together is an active symbol of protest and resistance with a long, long history. Marching works. Using your body to represent your position is…

Toronto! There are marches in most major Canadian cities in solidarity.

This is so beautiful. She is wonderful.

Fuck Don Charney, but the absolute best pair of trousers I own are from AA, bought on sale for $25. I just checked the website and they don’t have any left. I have been waiting for another sale on those trousers for 6 years! They’re dark navy twill, mid-waist, and are veeeerrryyyy fitted (even tho they were bought…