Correct she is. 

Look I fly a lot and everyone has triggers. Everyone also ends up touching one another in coach because there’s no way to avoid it. Just as it’s unpleasant for you because of your trauma and sensory issue, it’s much more unpleasant for them to know they are bothering someone. I just don’t think the situation is funny. 

Ha! That happened 6 years ago and my husband is still beaten up about missing his chance to be someone cool

Yes I fly United

I love the menstrual cup I bought from Target, but on a trip was in a pinch and bought a different brand. Holy shit they are not all made the same! It was so painful and kept falling out. If that was my first experience, I’d never try another cup again. So I feel like they need to also market based on brands and sizing

Yes... multiple times. Nice restaurants too. I can’t believe there are more than 1 people out there willing to change babies on planes. Gross!

All due respect to your past assault (I have been assaulted too so I get it) but two of your worst flights were sitting next to larger people? Sounds like you should just pay for more room if you can’t tolerate people touching you... it’s incredibly uncomfortable for them- they don’t want to get into your personal…

Was this flight in or out of Dallas? I’m pretty sure it was my sister you’re describing if it happened between 2014-2018. She’s also admitted to changing her kids’ diapers in chairs on restaurants.

Worst thing was me- I was traveling home from remote India to Denver. After 70 hours of travel (via a dusty car, an overnight train, another car through Delhi, a delayed flight in coach from Delhi to Paris), I’d made it on to my Paris to Atlanta leg. I’d been awake so long I cried as they were scanning my ticket and…

My husband took this “great” pic of our daughter when they were doing the APGAR tests and I’m in the background, bloody, in shock, getting stitched up. Everyone in the room and all the lights are focused on my daughter and there’s just the one person helping me (as I’m hemorrhaging and have a 2.5 degree tear) in the…

Great article. I worked for a Fortune 50 while exclusively pumping for 8 months- I was able to do so because my team’s HR partner trained the people leaders on the laws protecting me; provided me a safe, locked room with lockers, sinks, fridges, tables, chairs, and dimmable lights made exclusively for mothers to book…

He was a rapist who got off for being rich, like Chris Brown and OJ Simpson. He was also a selfish player, not a teammate. I know the judge who presided over the case and it is one of his biggest regrets that Kobe got off- sometimes the law isn’t justice, it’s a game. 

I think you’re misunderstanding Foy’s point when you say this isn’t a white woman’s battle, she says it is a battle for everyone. Yes, WOC are paid less than white women and she makes that point to explain why black women should mobilize to support the ERA but the ERA is meant to protect all women. I am a white woman…

This hit home. Trisomy 13 is common in my family, most of my sisters had multiple miscarriages from it. When I was pregnant the first time, I lived in Denver so I was “safe” if the genetic testing came back positive. Now, trying for #2, I live in Montana. The closest abortion provider is 77 miles away and could have…

Not mine but my coworker’s. We found out he carried a diary with him wherever he went for the past 20 years where he writes down lists: lists of the top 10 songs of summer each summer, beers he likes, items he’s lost, addresses he’s lived at... the lists continue. We found out about it because he referenced it in a…

I am so sorry to hear about your diagnosis. Trisomy 13 is common in my family- my sister lost 6 pregnancies to it. It’s a horrible position to be in and she mourns those 7 children (one was twins...) every day. Whatever decision you make, you will do so out of so much love for your child. If only we could all be so…

I doubt I’ll ever get out of the grays but I should have been aborted. My mother made the choice to get pregnant and, when he found out, my dad pleaded with her to terminate. He knew she could not mentally withstand the pregnancy. Sure enough, her pregnancy triggered some PTSD from the Vietnam War that resulted in her…