You Need Help: How to Feel Good About Getting Older
You already escaped the lies of the patriarchy. Now — now! — you get to live.
Queer Co-parenting Helped Me Unlearn Everything TV Taught Me About Family
Queer parenting insists that parenting is a verb, an action and identity available to any and all adults who take on a shared responsibility.
Needing To Abort Due To a Life-Limiting Fetal Diagnosis Was Heartbreaking Enough Already
Getting a life-limiting fetal diagnosis like trisomy 18 is devastating to expectant parents, who usually choose to abort rather than wait for an inevitable miscarriage, stillbirth, or a painful brief life for their child. But after Roe’s overturning, parents in many areas won’t have that choice at all, making an already heartbreaking situation more dangerous and traumatic.
Michelle Tea’s Queer Pregnancy Memoir Is for Everyone — Not Just People Who Want To Become Parents
For most of my life, I was convinced that some day, somehow, I’d be a parent.
You Need Help: I Keep Getting Yeast Infections When I Receive Oral Sex
I’m obsessive about the way I treat my vagina. Is this kind of annoying? Honestly, yes. Is it more annoying to get a yeast infection? Also yes.
We Need to Talk About Monkeypox
There’s a lot of misinformation out there — here are answers to some frequently asked questions about monkeypox.
10 Self Help Books Whose Titles Healed Me Without Having to Actually Read Them
Is reading nonfiction case histories of women who love too much really what I want to do with my one wild and precious life?
You Need Help: My Parents Want Me to Respect My Sister’s Homophobic Religious Beliefs
How do I get my parents to see that neutrality in this situation feels like they’re rejecting me too?
I’m Trans, I’m Trying to Get Pregnant and I’m More Pro-Choice Than Ever
Roe v. Wade has been overturned, today, as I lie here praying that I’m pregnant. And I have never been more pro-choice than I am in this moment.
I Was Ready for Parenthood — Then the Pandemic Struck
The question was never ‘did I want you.’ The question was always ‘could I keep you safe?’
Are All the Queer Moms Hanging Out Without Me?
As we start to shift the narrative about raw honesty online about motherhood, I wish that queer moms opened up more about how hard it is to create their inner circle.
“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 201: Mommi Culture
Honey, we’re home!!!! “Wait, Is This a Date?” is back and we’re talking all things mommi culture! And all things dating as an actual mom!
Medication Abortion 101
Here is everything I know about medication abortion so that you can access the care you need, share it with a friend, or save it for that just-in-case moment.
You Need Help: How Will I Know When My “Real Life” Has Started?
However you end up deciding to live your life is up to you. As long as you create your own path toward happiness and fulfillment, none of the other stuff matters!
Obsessed: Spiritual Guru and Alleged Arcturian Alien Teal Swan
Culty spiritual leader and self-proclaimed genius healer Teal Swan is the subject of Hulu’s “The Deep End,” Gizmodo’s “The Gateway,” and also my nightmares
How To Survive a Miscarriage by Marathoning 168 Episodes of “Survivor”
One thing you have in common with every contestant on the classic CBS reality television competition program Survivor is that you are not pregnant.
10 Ways to Keep Your Disabled / Chronically Ill Friends Safer This Pride
We clown on the commodification of Pride, but what good is that if we continue to perpetuate all the ableism intrinsic in capitalism in our own spaces?
“I’m Angry and Sad and Scared and I Know Nothing is Going to Change”
We invited the parents and educators on our team to share how they’re feeling in the aftermath of the horrifying school shooting of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.
Things That Have Mothered Me That Are Not My Mothers
I think of all the things that have taught me lessons and made me the woman I am and feel that, even if my mothers didn’t care for me the way I wanted them to, I still came out on the other side, not unscathed, but survived.
Obsessed: Elizabeth Holmes, Founder of Theranos and Noted Rich Liar
Welcome to the first edition of Obsessed, in which I provide you a reading list / media consumption list that speaks to my primary hobby: doing obsessive amounts of research into a singular topic or story for no reason.