Fun fact: I work in human service work, helping teach life skills and tackle harmful behaviors in people with disabilities. My field of work is one of the most dangerous there is, with the highest rates of on the job assaults and deaths at the hands of people we are serving. I have 88 hour work weeks AND I volunteer…

From what I understand, Beyonce negotiated to own the rights of her Coachella performance and has also turned that into a documentary on Netflix. I think she also netted a $60 million Netflix deal with 2 more projects on the way. So it may seem like Ariana made a better deal, but the reality is somewhat different.

Probably because mutual abuse is a highly complex thing that is often a response to abuse and because in mutual abuse cases with equal aggression women still suffer 70% of all injuries

Once I hid under the covers so well while mom was in the shower when she got out she couldn’t find me. She had the neighborhood looking for me outside while I watched them all scream my name. She finally came back in and saw me on the bed laughing. She was crying. Think I was about 5.

Or Scarlett Johansson

I don’t know exactly how home schooling works, but I would have thought there would be some sort of oversight to make sure the kids are getting an education and are at a learning level similar to thier peers. How do multiple kids get pulled out of school and never get checked on for years? I know schools are already…

-You shouldn’t adopt more than three kids, and if adoption would bring the total number of children in your home to more than 4, no. Anything above that should be due to a special circumstance, (adopting quintuplets, you have 4 kids and your sister dies and you take her children in, etc), with special oversight. Who…

In defense of TMZ they did say the attack was carried out by MAGAt supporters so adding racist in front of MAGA would basically be saying the same thing twice.

I was going to write the same thing. I never understood the term ‘homophobia’ and ‘homophobic’ for attacks on gays. Those literally mean ‘we be scared of the gays!’, and fits perfectly in the context of bathroom bill supporters and ‘christian’ people and businesses.

the attack may have been premeditated.

For me the word “homophobic” never made any sense in the first place. These people do not fear homosexuals, they hate them. It is a form of bigotry and should be treated as such. I have no idea what the word should be, only that homophobic isn’t it.

What stopped me in my tracks was the noose.

Where do you suggest someone who has mobility issues move to? A rural neighbourhood where you can’t get anywhere without a car? Where there are far fewer services for people with disabilities because the population is one tenth the size of a major city? A place nowhere near their family support system which is most…

Yes, I’m sure that disabled people who need to use public transportation can easily uproot their lives and move elsewhere. We all know that disabled people get those big bucks and can just afford to move to wherever. Totally reasonable. 

Oh my god! that is terrible. I am so sorry. I have to tell a story about traveling last week. I am NOT young and I am pregnant. I had to transfer to a flight several terminals down. Too pregnant to run. Too pregnant to carry heavy things. My carry-on suitcase handle broke coming off the plane. I couldn’t safely carry…

I generally did not get offered a seat on the subway in both of my pregnancies, and I’ve become accustomed to carrying the stroller up and down subway stairs myself. This story is so horrifying. Every once in a while someone might offer to help, but not often. I actually did fall once holding the stroller. The stairs…

Speaking as a pasty Irish woman, when I was around 2, I found a bottle of what I guess I thought was water in the house (in Ireland). So I drank it. As you do when you are a toddler. Then ran a ridiculous fever and ended up in hospital. What was in the bottle? The water they washed my great grandmother’s dead body in…

This is what I wrote when I posted this on my Facebook page—

“performing dentistry without a license,”