There have been trials with identical twins. Granted, you can’t totally control for other lifestyle things like sun exposure, but there is a noticeable difference. I don’t think everyone should do it, but I don’t loose that much face mobility, actually. As in, I didn’t tell my fiancé I started doing it, and he has…

Right? I get so infuriated anytime I hear someone comment that women have abortions because they can’t be ‘inconvenienced’ to be pregnant or raise a baby. Um, no, I would have an abortion because I value my life over a theoretical non-person and I’m not willing to risk it for the sake of satisfying your twisted…

Counterpoint: my genetics for skin are terrrrrrible. My mom, though beautiful, has the skin of an apple witch doll. I started to see signs of aging very early into my twenties - I invested in really understanding preventative skin care, and I regularly get mistaken for a 22 year old. I’m 30, so it’s not a massive…

I mean - sorry, I don’t know that I fully expressed my outrage here so I need to add that they THOUGHT CUTTING INTO THE BODY OF A FUCKING ELEVEN YEAR OLD RAPE SURVIVOR WAS THE BETTER OPTION. Fuck these people.

Exactly. She had to have a c-section because her body wasn’t developed enough to deliver vaginally. These fucking assholes like to pretend that because giving birth is natural, its without risk. Its never without risk. This child was just forced to have an unnecessary procedure that could have killed her. What the…

I really needed the oppty to vent about this. I used to get migraines in my teens and then they went away. Fast forward to writing up my thesis and suddenly - WHAM - weekly migraines. Sparkly lights, vision loss, vomiting, you name it. I’m trying to construct an argument about ethical ontologies and structures of…

She was the auntie of an ex of mine and he basically said she was never invited to family reunions because she was horrid. We dated post aneurism (2005) but I don’t think he was talking about this as a recent phenomenon.

Consequently, it also makes a fantastic drinking game.

The first time I did this to myself I ran it up one strip of leg and started laughing - maniacal, crazed laughter - at the realization that there was so much left to do...

Dress shopping was EYE opening for me. I thought I wanted a lace dress for certain. Something with a built in corset. I went into a shop here in Oxford and my consultant put me in a bunch of beautiful gowns but I hated the feeling of being trapped in them by the corseting and also sort of hated the way they made me…

I have been struggling with this for years, because I am deeply, deeply emotionally affected by animals but I’m also chronically anemic. Yes, you can get iron from other sources, but its not as bioavailable and iron supplements can cause stomach problems, etc. I tried to go vegetarian for two months and I lost 2/3rds…

I am in the UK and for some reason these debate have me feeling more patriotic than I have for years. Like, in American you really can be whatever you want to be. You can be an idiot AND a candidate for the presidency. THE SKY IS YOUR LIMIT, FELLOW IDIOTS OF AMERICA!!

That quote is awesome!

I wish we could start a hashtag, something like #theother97percent , of people posting about services they’ve made use of that aren’t termination. I am prochoice, but I also think its absurd that Republicans have been able steam over the fact that the majority of services provided are things like pap smears and birth…

A lot of my LGBT friends in East/Central Africa work on gay rights issues in their countries under the support of USAID and the embassy. If they didn’t play nice with the gov’t from time to time those safe centers and systems wouldn’t exist, my friends would be out of jobs, and they would be that much more vulnerable.…

Oh man. I lived and worked in East/Central Africa for years and I was always blown away by how easily colleagues and friends would malign colonialism for destroying their country - whilst being fiercely Christian. Like, does it not occur to you that your loving god and savior decided to let you all die in ignorance of…

I don’t know. They voted together 93% of the time when they were both in the senate. They have key differences in foreign policy, but 93% is still more than most of the senators we currently consider voting buddies. As I’ve said before, I like Sanders - but I don’t know that we do ourselves any favors demonizing…

So I worked tangentially on the lead up to the first Clinton campaign. There is zero chance she doesn’t have a robust and well-defined platform already. If she hasn’t made it explicit, its because she’s got a strategy. Not to say that strategy will play out the way she wants it to, but she is nothing if not utterly…

Nope. Sorry - Yoko is my spirit animal.

‘lingering taint’ - DIBS. new band name.