Meanwhile other women are being denied the exact same care in every state with abortion bans — Chaos erupted in the “prolife” community this week when it was announced that reality television show star and outspoken proponent of forced birth, Jessa Duggar Seewald of 19 Kids and Counting fame, revealed she had a D&C over the holidays to remove a problem pregnancy. There seems to be confusion…

We have always lived loud, and we’re not going to change that — Gen X refuses to die with dignity. We will die in the spirit of Grace Jones and Poison, thank you, as we express ourselves in any way we see fit, whether that be in a regular suit and tie, or a full body of tattoos. Most of us are not…

You matter. Your right to your own body matters — Let’s just get this out of the way right up front. I am an atheist liberal woman with purple hair, so you’re maybe not going to be super trusting of me, which I get. You’ve been taught I’m dangerous and hell-bound, and if you let my witchy ideas infect your…

The year was 1984. I was an awkward, depressed, 14-year-old middle schooler, and every day, after another shitty day at school, I’d escape into the magic world of MTV, until my mom came home from work. There were so many artists I loved fiercely— Cyndi Lauper, the Eurythmics, Michael Jackson…

Goober Cletus announces his run for the White House — Today Goober Cletus (R) of Phoenix, Ariz., whose given name is José Cortez, today announced his candidacy for President of the United States, and says among his top priorities will be to secure American schools because Democrats have failed to do so. …

But no one else — One good thing to come out of the trump years was the way white conservative privilege was outed beyond any reasonable doubt. During the January 6 insurrection, for example, there’s police radio coverage in which police talk about keeping an eye on armed insurrectionists — but not neutralizing or arresting…

Thoughts on family and climate change — When my husband and I took the plunge and decided to become parents after eight years of marriage and a vow to never have kids, we fully intended to have a total of two children. We’re practical people, and having two seemed the most responsible, both for the kids’ socialization…

And as a white person, it freaks me the f*ck out — There is a lesson we all should have learned when we were taught about the Holocaust: Nationalism is deadly. Not just for citizens with dark skin and foreigners, but for everyone. Somehow, millions of us missed this message. Genocide Nationalism History does repeat itself. That was the chief concern of the panelists who spoke at the Center for the Study of Law &…www.lls.edu

Then vote for women’s rights — In the abortion debate, I often hear men who are upset that women can choose when to become a mother but men can’t always choose when to become a father, and in a sense, that’s true — men cannot choose abortion, at least not legally. If he gets a woman…