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Berry Go Round #9
Welcome to the 9th edition of Berry Go Round, your favorite botanical carnival! This is my very first carnival hosting experience, so I hope you like it! I’m taking a plant morphology class this semester, and my professor has me a bit wary about the looming section on ferns with statements like “if you think […]
Loss of self
From Jennifer Clare Burke’s A Life Less Convenient: Letters to My Ex: No one knew what would be saved. I watched the illness and drugs pass through my body, wondering what would be left whole afterwards.
What to expect
While 1/3 of women have had an abortion by the age of 45, there’s a tremendous stigma surrounding the issue, forcing most women to go through the process without community support or advice from women who’ve chosen to have an abortion or considered an abortion and didn’t get one. I’ve been reading What to Expect […]
Communication fails fast
From Jennifer Clare Burke’s A Life Less Convenient: Letters to My Ex: Lying was easy. I didn’t want you to know what was wrong. I didn’t want you to understand the way my body was betraying me because I didn’t want to understand.
Uh oh spaghetti oh’s
Super confused by the current economic crisis? The subprime primer explains everything with stick figures and should clear up your confusion. And piss you off. Don’t worry, lots of other people are really pissed off, too. A simplified voting guide, via Edge of the American West:
Racism today, and a little history
Feministing points to an incredible article up at Alternet about white privilege and the current election. White privilege is when you can get pregnant at 17 like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to […]