Psychological abuse is also abuse. It doesn’t have to a criminal offense to be something we can acknowledge as bad behavior.

This is kinda roundabout but...years ago while travelling as an assistant and dresser to an older established star I unpacked her into the best suite of an elegant old hotel in Portland Oregon. It was gorgeous, full of books and art, lovely and comfortable in every possible way. I leafed through the guestbook other…

I said this yesterday, but I don’t think I could count on two hands the number of young female artists that Adams has been closely tied to either professionally or personally, only for all ties to be abruptly severed. (Sometimes their careers disappeared afterward, too.) If even a fraction of those women had similar…

I met Ryan Adams back in 2013 through a mutual friend. She was taking film photographs of the recording process of his latest self titled album at Pax Am studios. We both worked as artist in LA, and at the time she was 20 years old and I was 26. When I arrived, everything seemed cordial until Ryan started making…

He has malignant narcissism written all over him. This is all very unshocking.

And in Victoria, you can’t send them to school without their shots. I’m massively in favour.

A birthing tent, surrounded by the whole community of sister/mothers, while burning sage and chanting Gaelic fertility rituals. 

I work at a Museum and we talk about early homemade remedies from the garden, including homemade essential oils. Plenty of people wax positive about how nice it must have been to be self sufficient. That’s when I tell them about all the 1000's of babies that died each year from opioid overdoses from over the counter…

Omg. Fucking essential oils. I had someone in my local mom’s Facebook group ask the group if we could recommend any “home remedies” for a cough that her 4yo daughter had had for 8 WEEKS. 8 WEEKS!!! GIVE HER FUCKING COUGH MEDICINE YOU GODDAMN IDIOT! Take her to the doctor, it’s probably pneumonia or bronchitis! Rubbing…

These parents are in for a rude awakening. My siblings and I were raised that way--no vaccines, alternative treatments for ear infections and other ailments, essential oils, raw milk, etc. Guess what? When my siblings and I grew up, we got ourselves vaccinated to the hilt. Our kids are all up to date on vaccines. You…

Oh Yes! Homebirth moms with doulas. Only wear organic cotton and linen, everything in the house is untreated wood (which is highly allergic for a lot of people), everyone wears Wild Feminist t-shirts. 

I’m a nanny in Silverlake, a rich white hippie neighborhood of LA. Here is how little precious Eggs, Clover and Tomsawyer (these are all real names of kids) live: they don’t have to wear shoes because “Silverlake is clean” (that’s what one of the moms said to me after her child walked on the street for six blocks…

This reminds me of two wealthy counties, a few years back, in which cases of rickets were showing up in children. The children were from affluent homes, did not appear to be neglected or abused, and doctors could not ascertain the reason. Rickets is not generally a disease that we see in places of adequate nutrition. 

Daniel Salmon, the director of the Institute of Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins University, told ABC news that existing research suggests parents who tend vaccinate their kids, “tend to be better educated. They tend to be white, and they tend to be higher income. They tend to have larger families and they tend to use…

I understand your anger. But please reconsider wishing death upon these kids or saying they will stay racist. I was raised by fanatic anti-abortion activists and dragged around the country while they chained themselves to clinics. I was homeschooled along with about 100 other children being raised in the same…

Ugh, white people are the worst...

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA. Nobody said burqa. Hahahahahaha, of course that’s not necessary.  That’s a heathen muslim garment. Jesus loves you and wants you to have greater freedoms than those terrorists. But just, like, one or two more freedoms. Don’t go crazy with the freedom, young lady.

I have struggled with acne since I was 12—I’m in my 40's now. I’ve been on accutane 3 times, along with everything else under the sun. Literally you name it, I’ve been on it. I have also used pro-active on and off for years, although recently I’ve become really sensitive to it.

I understand that acne can be really devastating for some - my BFF had to take Accutane, and even as a 40-something adult, still has the scars.

“Speaking to investigators about her experience, Dushku said, “You’re all I have at this point.”