Roosh did feminism a favour
Bear with me. Here’s some facts. Feminism isn’t mainstream. I might happily convince myself it is, in my lovely liberal left-leaning bubble. I might go days thinking that everyone understands and cares Continue Reading →
“Inspiring” isn’t the compliment you think it is
I’m at the risk of repeating myself. I basically wrote this exact thing a year ago when Stella Young died. But it comes up for me time and again. I hate being Continue Reading →
“What an attention seeker!”
At my high school, attention-seeking was up there with the other two worst things you could be accused of, which were being frigid or being a slut. We were not encouraged to express any Continue Reading →
Angel or demon? The medical cannabis question
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my prognosis lately. Like most disabilities and illnesses, how things progress is individual and uncertain. But if it all goes downhill, I want to Continue Reading →
Could inflammation cause depression?
A new study has linked depression with a 30% increase in inflammation in the brain. That’s kinda massive.
The right to life
TWs. I’ve been thinking about the fight for the right to die. To me, it’s become a question about the right to live.
Happy Holidays and 2015 review
I’ll be taking a little break from the blog, from now until early January. I wanted to say happy holidays, a huge thank you, and highlight a couple important things Continue Reading →
The act of writing is protest
“Poetry and protest go well together… Poetry is by nature subversive.” A little while ago a friend gave me this incredible book, The Poetry of Protest. I’ve been reading and Continue Reading →
The Grand Unified Theory of Women’s Pain
‘The pain of women turns them into kittens and rabbits and sunsets and sordid red satin goddesses, pales them and bloodies them and starves them, delivers them to death camps Continue Reading →
Medication Masterpost
I get a lot of questions about the medications I am on, both for physical and mental health reasons, and the positive or negative side effects they might have. So Continue Reading →