My mom is going through breast cancer currently. She was first diagnosed 16 years ago, and up until this February, was in remission for 15. She had a unilateral masectomy and is awaiting instructions from her doctor regarding what kind of treatment she exactly needs, though it will include chemo.

My best friend killed herself at the age of 21. She didn’t do this because of any of the bad things that happened in her life. She did this because she was depressed and did not think life was worth living.

Thank you for sharing this. I was diagnosed with EDNOS, now called OSFED, when I was a sophomore in college. A bad breakup, the difficult transition into living away at college, and a floor full of girls who did nothing but talk about losing weight and congratulate me on being thin (even though I lost weight because…

Jezzies I need some big-sisterly/brotherly advice :( Articles like this make me feel shitty bc I can’t imagine anyone loving me enough to committ to me period, even without sex. I’m young (23) and sad because all my friends are getting coupled up, and I keep meeting guys who are ghosting on me, or who “aren’t looking…

Anyone else with older mamas out there/older mamas themselves? I hate seeing Janet getting shit for having a baby late in life. My mom was 45, almost 46 when I was born, both of us healthy and happy. (Unsurprisngly, I’m an only- neither of my parents thought they’d have children, but then they met each other!) I’ll…

I think this is a good thing, all things considered. Catholicism is sooooo strongly rooted in guilt, so maybe this will give Catholic women the peace of mind they need to go through with an abortion without worrying about the moral/Jesus consequences.

This shit is so mind-boggling to me. A group of people who tout their right to free speech and “saying what’s on their mind” and fucking elected a gremlin to lead our country because of it, mocking and insulting people using their right to civil disobedience and protest???? I’m no history buff, but didn’t America come…

Why are people so fucking stupid about climate change?? This isn’t a political issue, this is a planet you live on issue.

Yikes. I’m sorry you’re surrounded by that! I feel fortunate to have so many friends/acquaintances who are both politically-charged and intelligent. Really everyone I know my age, minus a small percentage of idiots (IMO) voted Hillary bc they respect women/gays/muslims/all the people who aren’t rich white men.

Not to be all #notallmillenials, but all of my peers who have spoken out against trump today were just as against him prior to the election, and just as enthusiastic about voting for Hillary. Including the most die-hard Bernie people I know. I can’t speak for the whole country, but yeah, we were fighting right along…

I participated in the New York protests. This morning I woke up literally wanting to die, feeling like every tiny bit of mental health progress I’ve made in my life had vanished. But now, there’s hope back in my heart. My brain feels clear. My love of feminism feels like a fire in me again, not an awful burden. This…

These names were the only reasons I ever even semi-looked forward to another awful news story about Trump. Thanks for doing the Lord’s work with this bbys!

Good. As a Native New Yorker it drives me fucking crazy to hear him act like he owns this city and represents us.

I feel delirious with happiness at the idea of Madame President. All the bullshit that American feminists have fought through will finally come to mean something big and monumental. Choked back tears at my polling place today watching mom’s vote with their tiny little baby girls in tow. I hope the world is better for…

Last night after I requested an uber, my driving drove 15 minutes away in the opposite direction after accepting the right. My date told me I should call him and tell him that isn’t okay, and was surprised when I said I did not feel safe challenging a strange man and then getting in a car with him. So I cancelled the…

What makes me sad is that when I was in incoming freshman, I would have been happy to know upperclassman boys found me attractive. On the flip side, if I was ranked poorly, it would have really fucked me up and started my college experience on a very bad note.

The ring thing is super weird. Sooo many guys I’ve gone on dates with have asked to try on my glasses and then get all annoyed and whiny when I say no. Uh, sorry, don’t want your big head stretching them out and your grubby fingers all over my lenses. Also, I need them to see????

Oh, absolutely. I think that it’s more my religion is for my family, but my faith in God is for me, and those obviously overlap. But when I think of my future, it is much more feminist than Catholic, and that’s how I’d want to raise my (hypothetical, who knows if/when they’ll exist) kids. I’m still young so I am also…

I disagree. I honestly do not remember enough of my religion classes to speak to that theologically, but I don’t think it’s fair to say feminism and Catholicism can’t coexist.

I grew up Catholic and it’s still a huge part of my life, but feminism is THE most important thing in my life, so these kind of stories really are difficult for me to process, because they make me question the integrity of something most of my childhood/my family has been built upon, and that’s troubling. (Whole other…