Feminism
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“Nannogenic” – because “we put sand in our pads” doesn’t sell product
I don’t pay a lot of attention in the sanitary products aisle when I go shopping, but this box caught my eye. (Images below.) I initially thought the illustration on the box showed molded plastic, with some sort of speaker and that this was a truly weird product that would hum period pains away. I freely admit it is possible…
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Men to Decide Whether Women Deserve Medicine
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: The best thing about living in the time of a pandemic is the fact that most of the usual shit that we had to deal with before is still happening. Sure, school shootings are way down thanks to the…
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Three Rants About Our Present Situation
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: I was having trouble coming up with a video this week and eventually I realized that after two months of watching the complete clusterfuck that is the US response to COVID-19, I just have all these mostly unconnected rage…
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Why Yes, Mayo Clinic. Even the Vice President of the United States Can Transmit COVID-19
Three days after I gave birth to my youngest child TD, I developed the worst fever I’ve ever had in my life. My teeth chattered so badly I thought my jaw would break and I simultaneously sweat through my bedding and shooks with chills. I had developed Puerperal Fever, colloquially known as “Childbed Fever.” When my temperature hit 104F, I…
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What Can We Learn from Female World Leaders?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Writing for Forbes, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox says that the female leaders of Iceland, Taiwan, Germany, New Zealand, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark had the best responses to COVID-19. She says that these female leaders can teach us something that male leaders…
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Lemon Cakes and Eyeliner
Content Note: This post includes discussion of domestic abuse and stories of survivors of abuse. Living through a global pandemic is a strange and frustrating thing. For those of us lucky enough to be able to work at home without major financial or physical implications, these days are a bizarre combination of extreme boredom and extreme anxiety. For me, one…
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This Celebrity Shaman has Discovered a Natural Way to Prevent COVID-19 (And Other Lies)
This crisis is putting a bright spotlight on a lot of society’s problems for all that are willing to see. The US economy was already a broken system with no support for those in crisis, it’s just that now there are more in crisis. Forcing people to chose between a pay check and staying home sick was always a public…
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Don’t Abandon Our Littlest Learners…
We are on our 13th day of social distancing in Case de Amontillado, the official name of the Strange-Isis abode. Some day I’ll write about why we named our house after my favorite macabre tale when we bought it two years ago, but today it seems eerily appropriate. I haven’t been out of Casa de Amontillado in any meaningful way for…
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