I'm once again in a cycle of barely sleeping. A lot of this is due to anxiety that I think I can trace back to my antibiotics. I was given about a three-week cycle to treat the infection in my wisdom teeth canals, but as luck would have it, I also came down with laryngitis last week and so they've been fighting that off, too. And I've had a ( Read more... )

I spent most of yesterday morning helping the birth center with their annual rummage sale. I had expected to be maybe one of three volunteers, but I was blown away that there were closer to a dozen, and many of them were not faces I recognized, which I thought was even better. It turns out I was voted to the board of the birth center's nonprofit ( Read more... )

( Reproductive justice thoughts... )

Right now, an amazing Feminist writer named Mikki Kendall is being harassed and threatened because she spoke out about having an abortion. I've submitted the following article to Feministing, but since it's 800 words, it might be too long for them to run. All the same, I want to bring attention to her cause. I respect her and I think what's ( Read more... )

I was 16 when the Twin Towers fell in New York, and I can still remember it clearly almost a decade later ( Read more... )

I just got around to posting over at birthtrauma. I joined that community probably sometime in October, but finally felt the urge to post because I just finished watching "Nine Months." I've never seen the flick before, but I thought it was pretty good, especially considering it's a Huge Grant movie ( Read more... )

I don't even know how to put into words how hopping mad I am over Kentucky's legislation that will mandate drug testing of folks in order for them to receive "food stamps ( Read more... )

To say that I'm disappointed by the results of the election is something of an understatement. I'm disappointed and greatly concerned about where things might be headed in the near future. Not that I think the now-Republican House will lead us into chaos, necessarily, but I do question where their economic policies will lead us. So many of the ( Read more... )

Earlier today, I was working on a deadline for a post about the top three Feminist blogs women should visit daily. I had hoped to do as many as 10, but once it became obvious my verbosity was going to once again get the better of me and I would hit a 3,000 word article, I opted to crop it down to three. Along the way, I came across the two-year-old ( Read more... )

Okay, let's talk breastfeeding. Disclaimer: as a member of the breastfeeding I need to throw out that if this is being talked about over there, I am not aware of it. I haven't actually read the community since I posted there a few weeks ago, and the rules make it expressly clear that discussions which take place there are not permitted to be cross-posted to ( Read more... )