It’s a travesty!

Well, very recent broken bone (split totally in half vertically, down the middle, it’s kind of awesome and stomach churning at the same time) + impending oral surgery + massive complication to already complex dissertation *is* legit overwhelming even when taken in small pieces. I have an outline that is in rather…

Heh - this “bit” to be put in is something that will take at least a few weeks of research, to start with. But I’m staring at the first book I need to read, and also a bowl of ice cream, and I’m gonna consume both shortly.

I have a dissertation chapter to write. I’m SO CLOSE to being done, and have to be done by November so really need to write write write.

But I very badly broke my foot and I’m having pretty awful oral surgery on Monday and everything sucks. And I just got some very positive and supportive comments back from my outside…

Sarah & Duck is leaving, like, tomorrow and I am bracing myself for the toddler protest. It’s his favorite show. I know we can buy it on Amazon but these days it’s literally one of the few reasons we still have Netflix.

Wow. Well, I see that you want to be nice as you’re leaving, but for real, tell a couple of key people what a douchebag he is being to you, and what concerns you have. The thing is, he could be the sort of arrogant jackass who is being a dick to you because he knows you’re leaving (and because you’re a woman who is…

Everybody knows that Kobach is shady as fuck, and the people who voted for him likely did so BECAUSE of it. It’s ridiculous. These people need to be run out of town on a rail, not put in positions of sweeping power. Our country is so broken. I hope whoever the Democratic challenger is just smokes whoever wins the GOP…

My friend went to Dr. Marci Bowers to have it done, I think it cost near $20k at the time, but this was at least a decade ago. All of this should really be covered by insurance.

There’s a few things going on here.

1) They said they didn’t know what was actually involved, so they didn’t know what to bill. $25k sounds really inexpensive to me for such an involved surgery, which has some serious recovery time (I have a friend who went through it and documented all of it in a blog, which is now…

I would watch the hell out of a Friends-Golden Girls mashup. I know it was a joke, but I’m just saying.

Gaslighting is when they know you are right but are working to make you feel like you are wrong for their own benefit or desire. So if they really couldn’t see the issues then it isn’t really gaslighting.

I do think that there’s an issue of people being overprotective of kids in the wrong ways. People go crazy when a…

A woman I knew for a while who is a nanny told me about what happened in her family with her own daughter. This woman’s uncle (her daughter’s great uncle) started grooming behaviors, and she caught him with his hand under her daughter’s shirt, and then her daughter opened up about other things this man had done -…

So infuriating. Ugh. I read an article recently about how sexual abuse happens, how people assume it’s mostly men (certainly most reported sexual abuse is by men, but lots of women are sexual predators, as well), and how to reframe your thinking and teach your child body safety, and how to telegraph to everyone around…

This is just unconscionable, how scumbags like this use position and authority to silence people and gaslight parents. I can’t even with this guy.

Probably not. The Instant Pot is great for a lot of things, but low and slow cooking on the stovetop involves slow evaporation of liquids to help it cook down and concentrate the flavor. The IP doesn’t allow any liquid to escape, so you’d end up with something a lot more watery. You could theoretically cook off the…

I’m so sorry this happened to you. I was lucky - I gave birth at home with a midwife. I was a high risk pregnancy but I found a really great, awesome, highly skilled midwife who was a totally badass mixture of super evidence-based science wonk and woman-centered-birth-is-a-deeply-spiritual-and-personal-experience kind…

heh! I’ll happily wear my feminist t-shirts (printed by an independent, female owned and run feminist shop) all day long, while I’m writing to and calling my members of Congress, phone banking for progressive candidates, otherwise mobilizing voters, and donating to important causes. But you do you, Colorado!

Funny what happens when you consider the health of the woman carrying the fetus less important than the fetus, and the health of the baby that’s born always a higher priority than the health of the woman who just gave birth.

Um. I think he confused Ocasio-Cortez with Donald Trump.

Democrats would need both a majority in the House as well as a supermajority in the Senate to actually remove him from office, and would also need 100% solidarity amongst Dems to do it. Meaning it’s very unlikely Trump will be removed from office even if it comes to light that he was colluding and/or committed…