Hey, It’s Been A While

My life has been… strange.  Something that led to a phenomenal amount of stress in my life has changed, leading to less stress in my life.  So as my body gets used to not living in the constant state of stress and panic it’s been in for the past five or so years, weird shit is happening.  Like...

Woooo! We did it! Cecile Richards on Time’s 100 Most Influential People List

Rock ON!  Granted the list still tends to be dude-heavy, but this is awesome!  I’m very excited.

Socially Conscious Gift-Giving

Well, it’s that time of  year again.  The time of year when media screams more than usual for us to “Buy! Buy! Buy!”  Faux News has started their yearly war on the non-existent “War on Christmas,” pretending that saying “Happy Holidays!” is akin to roasting and...

State of the Micks in Polimicks

Yeah, it’s been a little quiet around here lately.  And yeah, we did move, but that’s not what’s been keeping me quiet.  Mostly it’s been a screaming case of outrage fatigue.  I’m kind of tired of shouting at the top of my lungs the question, “Have any of you morons...

Welcome to All of Those Who Came to Norwescon!!!!

I hope at least some of you came here after hearing us talk!  The Body Acceptance is for Everyone panel went very well, I’m just sad we didn’t have more time.  I talked to the head of programming and I think we may break it up into a panel on Body Acceptance and a separate panel on HAES. So,...

Cultural Narratives and Other Just-So Stories.

We in American culture have a lot of cultural narratives with very little basis in reality.  From “everybody knows women lie about rape all the time,” to Reagan’s welfare queens in Cadillacs or Haley Barbour’s Medicaid recipients in BMW’s, American culture is full of things...