I’ll agree except for the abortion rights stuff. I’m extra fired up about this lately because folks on my social media doing the “Hurr hurr, I donated to PP in Pence’s name,” when addressed by some dimwit in the comments about “BUT DEAD BABY PARTS!?!?!?” replies with, “well I am donating for cancer screenings and…

I used to work for PP. They are fine, financially. Have you been up on the PEI stuff and abortion services finally being legal and getting started there? Folks who are doing that work could DEFINITELY use your support — financial and otherwise. I was up there a few years ago when a lot of the work to changing the laws…

Stories are difficult. There are actually tons of stories out there in blogs, websites, social media (Shout Your Abortion), podcasts (the abortion diary dot com), historic films (When Abortion Was Illegal), etc. People tell their stories all the time, but those who listen are already those more inclined to feel…

Thank you, yes! I replied downstream a bit, but I echo your sentiments. I used to work for PP and they are totally fine, they do a LOT of work. But it is because they are the Wal-Mart of health care providers. They have money to advertise and keep their costs low, and people need the care they provide at low prices.…

(Posted this on another article, but it is relevant here too. I will preface the post below that PP is all well and good, but remember how they promote all the time “ONLY 3% of what we do is abortions, we do all this other stuff!” Yeah, that other stuff is fine, but you are throwing your abortion patients under the…

The majority of abortions in the U.S. are provided by independent clinics; those not affiliated with Planned Parenthoods or hospitals.

I am in my 8th year teaching at the college level and I still have anxiety nightmares of not being able to control my class. I try every educator trick in the book, including being silent, and then end up screaming at them to “shut the fuck up!!!!!!” by the end of the dream, because I couldn’t leave. This has never…

One silver lining to come out of it is that I have a family member who has been saying odd things for years, but her husband can’t get her to go to the doctor. One moment she’ll be speaking casually that Josh Grobin keeps calling her phone, the next she’s totally fine and making dinner for everyone. Her physical…

I saw a journalist who covers vaccine issues speak recently, and she pointed out “Yeah no shit people don’t want to get vaccinations, look at the images the media uses to show them. They don’t show you healthy happy non-polio/measles/mumps kids running around being kids, they show you a crying child being terrorized…

Someone keeps putting a Trump/Pence sticker on a public lamppost in my neighborhood. Each morning I peel it off and use it to pick up my dog’s poop. Someone asked if I should be worried that the sticker poster is watching me and is going to hurt me for taking it down, and that hadn’t occurred to me in the slightest. I…

New nose.

I live in Iowa but am in another state right now for work. The first reports I heard/read about this were that they were searching for a black male. Now that the suspect is clearly white AND racist, I’m waiting for the “mentally ill” excuse. UGH.

Easy Rider, jesus christ. I moved to a city where I didn’t know anyone at 23, and my dad gave me a list of old films to check out from the local indie film rental on my block. A way to pass the time and get some history/culture simultaneously. Rosemary’s Baby, Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me, and Easy Rider…

I’m reading this in a hotel room at a conference and the sounds of high-heeled footsteps started slowly moving toward me one floor above. Your story is creepy and crowded hotel noises made me almost pee my pants!

This is an amazing explanation, thank you for taking the time to write it all out.

I didn’t realize I had any feelings about the Kardashian family until watching that video made me cry over my morning coffee.

I once dated a teacher who couldn’t give a test because a fight broke out on in the hall while he was carrying fresh copies, he got knocked over in the chaos, the fight kept happening, and when it finally broke up he realized someone’s blood was all over the copies scattered across the floor. My face was contorted to…

Thank you for sharing this. I teach at a college and am going to use this in my class. This is the best example of articulating my experiences with protestors that isn’t sensationalized news coverage for the 90s (ha). Thanks!

They sign up for shifts. I don’t want to link to their website and give them traffic, but you can see if/when 40 Days for Life is protesting your local clinic. I worked in 3 different clinics (and 1 was a network, so I would travel to the another 3 within that network to fill in for others when needed), and the “vibe”…

You mean anti-choice bills, right? No snark, just checking!!