There is nicotine in them tho...

This shit is real and important. I work at a college that still allows smoking on campus as long as it is outside, even though we regularly have students going to the ER with major asthma attacks after walking through clouds of smoke between classes. The landscaping makes it as such you’d have to walk through garden…

This is another reason why we have such high sexual assault rates on college campuses. This judge is basically PROVIDING A RAPIST to whatever college he chooses, with the added inflated ego that he can assault people with no consequence. And when he rapes someone again, he already has the How to Get Out of a Rape…

I work in higher education and have about $40k in student loan debt from undergrad and grad school — my parents took out the undergrad ones for me and I didn’t find that out until I graduated, when I discovered I alone was on the hook for them, even though I had a full-ride tuition scholarship (loans were for all of…

Not sure if my mom was already anti ‘pon, or if she got the idea that young women shouldn’t use them from Kristy’s parents, but when I got my period the following summer she wouldn’t let me use tampons either! But since I remembered how miserable Kristy was the previous summer, I asked an older cousin to get me some…

Love your name! <3

WINNER right here!

My dad’s family had been going to this rinky-dink set of cabins in rural Wisconsin for generations. By the time I was a ‘tween in the 90s, they’d at least been retrofitted with electricity, but you still had to use an outhouse. The nearby lake was great, but my fond summertime memories of bonfires, tubing, and jumping…

My best friend’s husband is in the media entertainment industry and his company was relocated to Atlanta a few years ago from another large city. They are well-known-enough but not huge, so probably not “powerful” in themselves; but they are shopping around for another city to relocate to. I work in abortion care and…

Yep. And I still looked like a child, as a late bloomer. Have you ever seen how boat gas gets pumped, you have to bend over so far, almost like touching your toes and sometimes even climb into the boats. Gross adult men would “help” me by grabbing onto my waist to guide me into or out of the boat. It was customary to…

I was 15, flat as a board, and working at a marina where I had to pump boat gas in a bikini. Men would comment at me, wink, lick their lips, and sometimes pinch my butt. I also had to work the bait shop, which included counting nightcrawlers into little Styrofoam cups with my bare hands, because you couldn’t grasp…

Nah, PP gets enough in donations and throws abortion care under the bus in how they talk about their services. Indies actually do just as much legal work and help sue the government for unconstitutional laws, but never get the notoriety because PP is an easily noticeable name brand. This post and debate with the donor…

Hi, a quick note to say the proper term is "later abortion"...check out Later Abortion Initiative for more info!

NoNo! Give it all to independent abortion providers or local or national abortion funds! Indie clinics provide the largest number and percentage of abortions in the United States, and ALL of the providers in Alabama are indie clinics, not Planned Parenthoods! See www.abortioncarenetwork.org for more info about…

Over 60% of all abortions are done at independent abortion providers, not Planned Parenthood. 100% of abortion providers in Alabama are independent clinics, not Planned Parenthoods. We need to stop automatically routing our dollars to PP and instead donate to indie clinics and abortions funds, especially in places…

Here to say A) Yes, good. Burnout is real. And B) Thanks for the work you do, Lauren and all the Jez crew... your work makes our work more bearable. Wishing you some nice paid time off and a minimum 10% raise this coming fiscal year!

Did we learn somewhere to count ceiling tiles, because this is exactly what I do at Gyn appointments. If there aren’t tiles I count backwards from 100 by 7s. It keeps the brain busy, works like a charm (for me)!

Have you seen Escape From Tomorrow? A weird psychedelic not-quite-horror film secretly filmed at Disney without their permission.

A staff-mate and I did an undercover op-ed at one of these places in the Midwest for our college newspaper in the very early-aughts. I was the “pregnant” one and she was my friend along for support.

Yeah, there’s a lot to unpack in her story and it is hard not to give my opinion about that part of it.