Sunday Snippets: DC

He doesn't just get to turn the American military against its own citizens. And now he wants to come for Oakland, Baltimore, Chicago. You think he's going to stop with those cities? You think he's going to stop if people keep rolling over for him? We have to stop him.

Epstein and Oedipus

The Mamdani effect: how his win spurred more than 10,000 progressives to consider run for office

"How Can I Write At A Time Like This?"

Trump administration asks judge to end policy on protections for immigrant children in custody

Trump wants a new U.S. census to exclude people here illegally. It'd be unprecedented

Former acting FBI director involved in Jan. 6 investigations fired

Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’

Accelerated brain ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic

'Link in Bio' Ruined All Our Brains

       It’s more a metaphor for the current state of our collective psyche that Instagram has spent the last decade-plus shaping: smoother, less literate brains are just better for business. (Absolutely sad but true!)

Poetic murals, haiku recordings among laureate's plans for Detroit

Twenty Years After the Storm

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

The antisociality of the trad wife

3 Businesses Transforming Food Waste into Profit

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

It has been almost a year of this round of bloodshed and it has to fucking stop.

Let Inner Healing Shape Your Outer Spaces

Killed in her pink roller skates, a Palestinian girl’s photo in Gaza goes viral

Unreasonable Love

Cave discovery in France may explain why Neanderthals disappeared, scientists say

650-foot tsunami in Greenland fjord made waves that lasted 9 days, scientists find

Neighbors and city leaders voice ongoing concerns about public safety as career firefighters are still on reallocation assignments

Sins of the Father

Suck It Up, Buttercup

Irving Penn: Small Trades

Book Review: Healing Painful Sex

I have only one question for the authors, Deborah Coady and Nancy Fish; where was this book all my life!?

Healing Painful Sex: A Woman's Guide to Confronting, Diagnosing, and Treating Sexual Pain is probably one of the most important books I've read this year alone. This book would have been a godsend when I was first diagnosed with endometriosis. Or dealing with the beginnings of IBS. Or the multiple urinary tract infections in college.

It is a hefty tome, clocking in at almost four hundred pages, with all the chocked full references included, but it is a must have on every woman's bookshelf. The book is divided into three parts: Naming the Problem, Understanding the Problem, and Overcoming the Problem. The authors give step by step instructions for everything from how to pick the right doctor (one who is caring and listens), how to figure out exactly what is causing the pain and how to begin to heal your life from the illness that splintered your world. The references are a dream guide, which include not only recommended books, but doctors, associations, physical therapists, pharmacies, places to get sexual aids, and even websites that have pain assessment tools.

Coady and Fish, even being medical professionals themselves, advise a great relationship with your primary care doctor, but also have tons of alternative healing advice to give. Yoga, deep sleep techniques, physical therapy, acupuncture, along with many others are also advised to begin the healing the process, even if you haven't found a great doctor to connect with.

The language is caring and sensitive (for the most part because my only issue with this book was that while it strives to be inclusive, there are moments when the language slips into heternormativity) and the love and understanding is felt in every page. These authors want to help every single woman who has ever dealt with sexual pain lead a pain free life.

This is a monumentally important book that needs to be on everyone's wishlist this year. Pick one up for every  woman in your life. They will thank you for it.

(Photo credit: Seal Press/I received a review copy of this book, but all opinions are my own.)