Stupid, drunk, and intently studying ABC’s hit show The Bachelor is no way to go through life, son.

The stigma and shame centered around mental illness is so bizarre.

Yes, something that everyone should have access to. We need to do better!

As someone who has both serious mental health issues and serious financial issues, I feel the need to point out here that sure, being able to afford primo help is presumably better than trying to slog it out on your own, unassisted by professionals but it’s not as easy as hiring a housecleaner - presto! clean house!…

trying to learn how to not pick apart my every flaw.

Yes. There was a sea of pastel and then me. For me this was a lot of colour. At the time I wore black suits and heels. Every damn day. Because all my fave lady jazz musicians wore black suits.

You were in theater group?? Shocking😏

Oh my god! I had a dress for a homecoming in 2001 EXACTLY in that color and fabric. I thought it was so different....

In highschool my theater group did a trip to NY and were in the audience of TRL. Somewhere in my parents house exists a VHS of me, on MTV, with frizzed out hair, just full out screaming like a banshee (not like smiling cheering, full open mouth shrieking because I was so excited) and clapping like I was trying to…

Wasn’t 2002 only a couple of years ago?!?!

Where is Vitamin C now?

Prom 2000. I didn’t really do makeup. But I did do TONS of Frizzease in my hair.

I feel like I was bitch-slapped by nostalgia just looking at those pics of frosted eye shadow. Makes me think of Britney and TRL and teen movies. Ah, good times.

Wait, what? I’m going to need some kind of source.

I think she punched Alexander Skarsgard.

So much for these girls finishing their education and making lives of their choosing.

...of the 234 women recently rescued by the Nigerian army after being abducted by Boko Haram last year, a staggering number of them—214—are pregnant.

Well, there’s a big, fat wake-up call to anyone who doesn’t believe rape is a tool of war or that access to and control over one’s own reproductive care (including abortion) is a human right.

“We look after them and ensure they get antenatal care and that they deliver properly and that they even get cesarean section when necessary.”

So no abortions then?