Gasp! Women can hold more than one thought in their heads?! I can wear 4” heels and lipstick, and code ESRI map data AT THE SAME TIME?! Stop the presses.

.....of smallpox.

Yeah, my home stay family was baffled by me. “ you’re a real red indian?” Um, I guess so? Some glamour model caught shit last Halloween for dressing up as a “scalped Indian" and cried bullying when people called her out.

Ugh. It’s suuuper cute when people try to reduce my culture (well, sorta. We don't do tipis on the coast) to a twee little playset for their kids. Cough.

Eh, NZ is more progressive on indigenous issues than Canada or the U.S. In a big way. I say this as a Native person with treaty membership and the whole nine yards. They have a way higher percentage of Maori elected officials, for example. The UK and Europe are their own hot mess, and ‘Straya even more so.

Yessss. Vancouver is a waffle utopia.

I wish I didn’t have experience with this. My friends mum, let’s call her Jane, has always been desperate to convince everyone how young and sexy and fun she is. My friend got engaged about a year ago, and from the minute she told Jane it was all about how much fun the whole thing was gonna be all the damn time. Like,…

IUD, SIS. Stay in school, cause it's the best.

Oh man. The prof I had for Spanish all through undergrad did the funniest but totally not PC impressions of the French ever. She grew up in Madrid and Marseille. P

I was there for an academic thing with colleagues and profs, we all had to get tested/hang out at home for a week after some of the folks we interacted came down with it. Never mind that you have to have current vaccines for continued enrolment in all programs.

Fuuck. My mom is 58. Since grade 12 I've had reminders from the universe that she is in fact mortal, and it's not a nice feeling. I love her and was a shit to her from age 11-17/18, then woke up to the news that my friend Elliott's mum had died and it hit home that she wasn't gonna be around forever. I'm ugly crying…

Yeah, we get nurses and pharmacists as short term volunteers to go to them now. The point is, it's infuriating that people here refuse something that mamas all over the world walk for days for.

King County has one of the lowest vaccination rates in North America. It makes me beyond mad, I live in the PNW as well (near Victoria) and the attitude is very similar. When I was working in Guatemala, I met women who- no word of a lie-bundled up their kids and hiked over a VOLCANO to get their kids immunized. Unless…

I'm a huge fan of the sea to summit scrubba and detergent leaves.

Dude yes. Where I live that's an option too, and my gp referred me to her cause her MScN was focused on providing long term care for rape survivors! She's amazeovaries.

Then she's a fuckwit for lying? Rule number one: never ever lie to your artist about anything health related.

His kids must haaaate it when he shows up to their games. “ gooooooaaaaalllllllll!”

Tell me Grant Lawrence isn't a pain to serve? His CBC cronies, though....

Whoever tattooed her is a moron. You're not supposed to get pierced or tattooed while pregnant or nursing, you heal slower and there's a way higher risk of your blood sugar tanking and passing out while getting it done. APP best practice for piercing is not to pierce women who are pregnant/nursing and most tattoo…

All that money and girlfriend still hasn't twigged that the black eyeliner and orange tan combo is incredibly aging.