You have to allow the person to seek treatment and return to their position again before you can terminate them for addiction.

Which is illegal.

Incidentally, addiction can’t legally be a reason for termination under the ADA as long as an employee has received medical treatment for it and is not currently using.

It’s not about abortion. It’s about controlling women.

Just finished another art history paper. Only 8? more to go for this quarter. Please remind me why I love school again....

A lot of hospitals in the US are religious affiliated and do not provide abortions. The ones that do are DL about it for safety reasons. PP is literally the only place some people in the US know to go. I don’t even want to think of what would happen if they were gone. I hope we’re moving the way of the rest of the…

So, last night, on the car ride home from the derby game after-party and some breakfast-for-dinner, my kid came out to me as non-binary. (Also known as genderfluid or genderqueer, although I don’t feel like I have the right to call her the last one.) She* described gender as more of a color wheel,with the standard…

Because if they actually cared about abortion they’d be supporting birth control and thus planned parenthood. It’s not about abortion. It’s about controlling women.

In 2004, I was raped in an area of upstate NY where the rape crisis services were run by Planned Parenthood—as in, if you came to a hospital reporting a rape or sexual assault, that’s where they referred you for ongoing care. The staff at PP’s rape crisis center was incredibly kind and supportive to me. They gave me…

Not my story but one of my friends. She got pregnant really young but decided to keep it. She’s done a rad ass job of raising her son while also pursuing a career artist. She had a health scare a few years ago and was able to get help at our local planned parenthood satellite clinic. These days she’s a successful…

My American Jezzie friends have explained to me numerous times why certain groups have so much hatred towards a health service, but my mind still has trouble accepting it. I mean hospitals also provide abortions, because it’s health care. Animosity towards a health provider is just incomprehensible for those of us in…

Almost tow years ago to the day, my on-and-off boyfriend of seven years committed suicide. We weren’t dating at the time, but it still hit me like a train.

Alright y’all. Buckle your seatbelts. I know you’re prob tired of hearing about the Donald but I haven’t found a good venue to talk about this until this post.

Praising an important institution for 100 years of important work? Thank heavens our poor attention span was enough for that!

Long story to preface this one.

Two years ago I was living in a hotel room after a total-loss house fire, which is needless to say an enormously stressful situation. My vagina has always been very sensitive to stress. She’s a special snowflake, for sure. Additionally, my whole vagina self-care routine was disrupted by our loss. I was basically…

“I’m so very sorry, but when we were stitching you up Dr. WTF sewed his finger to your labia. It didn’t worsen the tear, but fluids mixed and we do need to do an HIV test. After we re-sew.”

Not a Ben Carson supporter and think he’s a man with no business in politics, but that stat is meaningless. Roughly 20% of all neurosurgeons are sued for malpractice each year. In only a small portion of the claims is the surgeon found at fault (like leaving a sponge in a patient, although that’s generally not a…

I very recently was in the shower and felt what seemed like, well, poop in between my cheeks. I reached back figuring I’d clean it out and pulled a worm out of my ass. Like a six inch long white worm. I screamed and threw it on the floor and it was wriggling around. My SO came running in looked at it and said “this…

Donna, once in college I was trying to shave my legs in the little dorm stall shower, and so I had my leg up on the wall, but also I was wearing flip-flops, because dorm shower. Anyway, my one standing foot slipped out from under me and I came slamming down on the tiled stall floor to bruise my assbone like woah, but…