Im always in the greys, but here it goes. I was one of the leaders in my work’s unionization efforts last year. I’ve since moved on to grad school, so I was technically only in the union for a month, but it was worth it.

You’re amazing! Thank you for fighting so hard to make things better. It will benefit all the women who join the department in the future, and women who work with male graduates of the department in the future - they’ll be less likely to see a toxic, misogynistic culture as normal.

Sorry for the length, and that I’m not a very good writer. But this is an important story to me so I’ll do my best.

The time when, as a 17 year old travelling through London with a huge 100 litre rucksack on I came across an obviously disabled man who everybody on the platform was ignoring (to the point of having a 6foot ‘bubble ‘ around him) despite him plainly struggling. He had a stick, so he was fairly mobile, but it was…

I used to be a barmaid in a remote Australian town that had a large Aboriginal population and was so, so racist. The pub had two bars in separate rooms, connected by an opening behind the bar so the bar staff could move easily between them.

I used to work in a government subsidy program that paid for child care for needy families. I had an 86 year old client who was caring for her 3 grandchildren ages 5-10 in my caseload. She missed an appointment and I had to initiate a termination of her case. She didn’t get in contact until the day after her case…

I went to graduate school for a degree in a male-dominated STEM field. The culture in the department and university was terrible. Women were routinely sexually harassed and silenced through the department. I built up a group of women in the department and fought for two hard years alongside them and other amazing…

I am approximately the same size and shape as I was pre-kids, but I will never truly “have my body back” ‘til I can break into a dead sprint and catch the bus without peeing my pants.

I was also going to direct you to the Guttmacher site. In addition to the stats on when abortions occur, only 1.3% after 21 weeks, they have some interesting stats on whose having abortions. For instance 13% are evangelical Christians, 24% are Catholics. Combined that’s only 1% more than the 38% of women who claim no…

This was written by a Maternal-Fetal Medicine MD I know (I want to give her credit, but don’t want people hunting her down and harassing her):

If it helps the concept, in Ireland we count spring from February 1st, called Imbolc or Brigid’s Day. It’s about halfway between the solstices and the snowdrops and crocuses start to bloom around then. And our weather pretty much operates on a system like “Roll a dice, 1, 2, or 3, it’s rain, of increasing intensity;…

Did anyone see the Superstore episode where Amy had to come back from work pretty much immediately after having her baby? It was heartbreaking and really called attention to some of the challenges working women with babies have in the US.

Hey SNS! My Paris trip is booked!

Hi Jezzies, so as most of you know it’s been a really crappy few years and money has been short, especially so the past few months. Someone must of been looking down on me because this week I came into some money, not a life changing amount but enough to give me breathing space. It came at the right time because a…

We still use “see for miles”, “came within a fraction of an inch!”, “leaking gallons and gallons”, etc! But when we’re actually, y’know, measuring something*, we take it seriously.

“We are always asking for something when we get dressed,”

I have endured an extreme amount of trauma as an adult with repeated injuries, illnesses and accidents of various kinds. And yet, nothing has been worse than middle school. It was violent, stratified and unsupervised. Basically, anarchy. For those of us who were bullied, each day was hell born anew.

I have a theory. Men purposely pretend that they can’t do these things, or that they can only do them badly to get out of doing them at all. They know, for example, when they put the baby’s diaper on backwards, we’ll just grab it out of their hands and say, I’ll do it myself.

“I didn’t have much experience of how to organize domesticity.”

 Best summation of the photo op: