Martina Clements, 41, a Portland mom who didn’t vaccinate her two children until recently, said the anti-vaccine community uses fear to raise doubts about vaccine safety. But parents who support immunizations can be belittling.

I’m glad I never paid.

Former Hill staffer here...

A combination of racism and colorism passed on through the Brits and strengthened by white supremacist American institutions and instruction, a wholesale adoption of the model minority myth that allows Indian Americans to act white-adjacent and thus reap the benefits, slavish aping of mainstream conservative/white…

Eh. Indian-Americans skew heavily towards the left with respect to voting patterns - 2nd, 3rd generations even more so - but there’s a lot of conservatism embedded in that community, particularly when it comes to economics, Islam, and skin color. Let’s not forget that India is, by and large, a very conservative…

As a teacher, this is heartening news.

I need to be alerted to when my period is going to start because 1) I can identify pain and bloating as period-related symptoms and not GI symptoms 2) I can start taking ibuprofen every few hours in order to somewhat reduce overall pain and 3) can start wearing my cup so I don’t end up bleeding through my pants at…

Ditto, I honestly didn’t know this was a thing until Jezebel started writing about it.

I have regular periods and I’m not worried about getting pregnant, but an irregular period for me means something’s up, and I’d like to address it asap. But a regular calendar works better for me, the apps I’ve used aren’t even remotely accurate.

Yeah, something about tracking my period has always bothered me on a very fundamental level. It’s hard to describe, but I’ve always felt irritated when it’s assumed to be something everyone does or treated as some kind of essential aspect of the female experience. 

“This doesn’t matter to me so WHY should it matter to anyone else?! Ugh.”

I’ve been tracking my period electronically since around 2008, starting with a free on-line tracker and now I use iPeriod. I do it electronically because that way I actually remember to do it, unlike every paper agenda I’ve ever had that I would promptly forget to fill and/or consult. And I use that rather than my…

When I had my IUD, I bled almost constantly. It took my tracking app to convince my gynecologist that I was messed up and needed to pull it. It has its uses.

Since being on BC for years, I can tell you the exact hour of the exact day of each month I will get my period and I’ve never been more grateful that my body isn’t a traitorous bitch like some unfortunate souls I know. Thank my lucky stars and relatively intact underwear collection.

Jumped out like a neon sign.

“You’ve gotta stop with this pro-woman feminism stuff. Nobody wants that. It kills the fantasy.”

“You’ve gotta stop with this pro-woman feminism stuff. Nobody wants that. It kills the fantasy.”

Mandroid

There are ways to get these people the proper IDs they need. It is a bit complicated but should work.

Senior year of high school-in the eighties. My parents had moved our family to this godforsaken desert city from the Midwest the middle of my junior year. I was a fish out of water; often quite literally. Left my boyfriend in the Midwest; my first true love. We spent a few months with feverish phone calls, long love…