Holy shit. I just wrote on the other article about the woman with herpes on her chest that I have hidradenitis suppurativa that went undiagnosed for 10 years and didn’t know anyone else with it until this past year. And 3 minutes later this article with videos of a woman with it appears. HS visibility!! We need more…

Thank you for sharing your story. The visual aspects of our bodies are such a huge component of sexuality, for ourselves and our partners. Even if a partner is understanding, it can take years or a lifetime to feel sensual and desirable with visible skin conditions (and other ailments not discussed here). I lived with…

Perhaps we can start by not referring to a 28 year old as a “girl,” as this report does. One can even argue not to call her a“young woman” either. 28 is a full decade into legal adulthood, so maybe we can just call her a woman.

I’m already bawling at the trailer. My spouse lost a sister to addiction when she was only 33 years old. He and I had just started dating so I didn’t really get to witness the level of pain their family went through leading up to her death, but they are all still struggling with it years later. None of them talk about…

And Famke Janssen played Ava Moore, a trans woman on Nip/Tuck, though her character and storyline made her a predator on a teen boy :(

I saw this in the theater opening weekend. I had MoviePass and a coupon for a free popcorn, so why not?

Wonder if we were treated at the same hospital. I had norovirus and was so cold and dehydrated, the nurse couldn’t find a vein for the IV. She just kept poking me and blowing veins, all up and down my hands and arms. Then she tried it on my feet and still nothing. I was in such discomfort and pain and I told her she…

I’d like to see what programs are being put in place to help these children with the long-lasting emotional, mental, and spiritual trauma that will result from being incarcerated. Are there social workers and counselors on staff? How are they addressing children’s specific needs? What about their growing bodies and…

I identify with your comments the most out of all of those I am reading. I think I saw a trailer months ago, logged “horror film with Toni Colette” in my mind, and then realized it was out this week and caught a Tuesday matinee. I brought a friend with me and throughout the film we each said to the other “did you know…

This is progress! Now if only my gender non-binary friend and coworker didn’t have two walk 3 buildings over to use the bathroom on our campus...

I’m childfree and staying that way. But I was at a health practitioners conference last week and a speaker on healthy aging showed a graph of what the U.S. population distribution will look like in 2050, and it is an upside-down triangle. Way more elderly (boomers and gen-Xers) than younger folks to staff the…

And of course the trolls are immediately purposely using the wrong pronouns and gender identity for Torin. Do not reply to them! Leave them grey.

Also in the field. Agree with your assessment from my own experience and research. My biggest pet peeve is when “pro-choice” folx say, “but no one is pro-abortion.” And such is the problem with “pro-choice.” Get outta here with your judgmental BS (I would say to that, not to you or your comment).

Yes, some of us have utilized that language as an educational tool. I am even seeing college students call themselves pro-abortion as one way to destigmatize abortion.

It is always difficult not to assume family is being snarky or judgmental when they do it. It is 100% from his side of the family, so I give them the benefit of the doubt that they are so ingrained using his last name that they forget I also have a last name. His sister kept her last name (so bro and sis have their…

I have a terminal degree. I kept my last name because it is my name, not because of the degree (not that it matters), so hubs and I have different names. Let’s say my last name is Smith. I LOVE when people say “Oh hi Mr. and Mrs. Smith” assuming my name would be my husband’s and therefore his is Smith. He finds a lot…

Don’t your kids already to that ever-creepy kid thing where you wake up and they are standing right by your face, silently staring at your? My family was sharing house for a vacation once and my nephew kept doing that to my husband and it scared the shit out of him. Poor kid kept getting disoriented in a new place…

Omg. I live in Iowa and everything here is shit right now, so I might as well go find this place and feel “normal” fear instead of the ever-impending doom that we are now Gilead (see recent abortion legislation). I’ve lived in various states around the Midwest for the past 20 years and have never heard of this!

Feel free to dismiss the Gilead motherfucker who also replied to you. And your assumptions about other restrictions and lack of clinics are correct. I’m a clinic worker who drives an hour to work to help women and pregnant people get the care they want and need and are legally allowed to have, but for the patronising…

Kim Reynolds signed an abortion ban into law (not an anti-abortion ban). I WISH we could ban anti-abortionists! Also I live in this shithole state. 😤😤😤