my sister and I get this stuff every time we travel out of the states, oddly enough not as much in the states...not sure why. we’re both white, but genetically speaking we’re sort of a grab bag of DNA. I joke that I got all the Norwegian and Sami genes, and she got all the Turkish and Greek and so when we travel…

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Thank you for putting into words what I have struggled to articulate in regards to HRC. I am all for ambitious women and consider myself one, but not everything can be pushed aside in the name of that ambition. Your husband, who you support still, behaving in sexually predatory, misogynistic and possibly illegal ways…

I get randomly selected all the time as well. And I am a super white lady, who in the words of my patients, “looks like a hippie Kindergarten teacher from Portland”. I get the extra pat downs (I only wear leggings and t-shirts when I fly), the explosive powder residue testing, and twice flying out of London I got the…

I work as a psych nurse in homeless medicine down in Southern California and there’s a lot of truth to this statement. Even if we can get people housed (which is not especially easy in San Diego, but certainly easier than in the Bay Area) the issue is maintaining them in that housing. Giving someone housing is a vital…