Oh my gosh, I completely forgot about Bonnie Bell. I can still smell/taste the deep burgundy “sheer” Dr. Pepper lipgloss my older cousin got me for Christmas one year and my parents got mad because I wasn’t allowed to wear makeup, which of course made me want to wear it even more. My mom hid it in the back of her…

He’s def v. attractive. Especially to me. My spouse looks like he could be Adam Driver’s harrier, slightly less angular, brother.

Are you still in Iowa City? That’s where my friends are, and where I went to school for a couple of years. I’m still in the Midwest, just another farm-filled state that isn’t necessarily any more progressive.

I was so proud of our state when we were the 3rd to legalize marriage equality in the U.S. I met Barry Obama in Iowa City at a rally for Dave Loebsack in (05? 06?) and then again at a small town hall meeting (I was an intern for a small local government) and the vibe of politics in our state in those years was so…

Hi Fellow Iowan!

I was hired last year, so we’re probably fine. But thanks.

I went from working at a public university where everyone’s salaries are published to a private institution where everything is hush hush and no one talks about their salaries. My department is getting ready to hire a new person at the same level as me and you bet your ass I am going to tell them how much I make. I…

As someone in my 30s preparing to help a parent in their late 50s get into assisted living for a disability, I don’t wish this work on anyone, though I know it is a part of life for many. I cannot imagine having to do it in or right after college, with mountains of debt, trying to navigate school, work, life,…

There’s a National Pro-Choice Adoption Collaborative that has folks and agencies all over the country who do secular pro-woman pro-family pro-choice work regarding adoption.

The thing is, though — if he started in 2001 and the settlement came around 2006, he was probably going through that legal process before tenure (which happens in the 6th year for most institutions). Unless he came in to the position with “time served” meaning his tenure clock would be shorter and tenure awarded…

Alumni and parents are really the only way to get points across to college administration. The folks who wield the power of money in donations and tuition. Students can complain or protest (though it doesn’t seem like that is going on at Arian), but nothing will be done until the “real adults” are involved. Appeal to…

I teach sex ed and during the anatomy lecture poll the class how many people have seen a penis in real life (not on TV/movies/photos), even if it is their own. Then I poll how many people have seen a vulva IRL, same parameters. Every single year more men have seen vulvas IRL than women. And more women have seen a…

Some friends and I got another girlfriend a vibrator for Christmas when we were in our 20s. She said she’d never had an orgasm alone and only could once-in-a-great-while with her boyfriends over the years. She seemed slightly embarrassed, kind of excited, but also kind of disappointed that we didn’t get her a “better”…

Oh my god. I live in the midwest and listen to some terrible local rock station in the mornings — they are the only one that my old clock radio picks up. I usually use their asshole early-morning drivel to get me out of bed ready to be a non-asshole.

I haven’t dug too much into their family history coverage in the media. But based on what you’re saying one could also ask themselves if June has a history of sexual abuse, especially as a minor. Teens impregnate each other all the time, but how old was the father of the baby she had at 16? Where are her parents and…

U.S. kids live in a country where we simultaneously promote and vilify sexuality. We defund organizations that could give them discounted or free access to reproductive health care. We spend billions on abstinence-only education programs for their schools that have been documented to have the opposite intended effect,…

Or free condoms to every boy? Like many places already do? Takes two bodies to make a pregnancy...

Her two eldest daughters became moms at age 17. “Mama June” is 38 with 3 grandkids. June had her first kid at 16. Even with whatever “wealth” comes from their “fame,” that family cannot postpone teen pregnancy. What’s missing? What does this say for the rest of the country that does not have money to access health…

Control, for sure, since she would only fuck in her “loving bed.” Loving bed. Lovvvving bed. Lovinggg bed. Loving bed. JUST SAY BED!

She’s 27. I think Jamie tells his wife Nola’s age when she asks if he’s fucking a 19 year old.