Sunday Snippets: Kiddos

I'll look at my son, playing or chatting with the cats and still be astonished that I helped make him.

Angelica Ross Will Be First Trans Person to Host Presidential Forum

Murders, disappearances and abuse: The Native American women of Pine Ridge

How Ashley C. Ford Figures Out What She Really Wants

Transgender Woman Ja’leyah-Jamar Murdered in Kansas, Activists Say

Women are flocking to plastic surgeons to fix ‘resting bitch face’

Greta Thunberg to Congress: ‘You’re not trying hard enough. Sorry’

To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution

Menstrual blood ad complaints dismissed in Australia

Sunday Snippets: Leverage

I've been bingeing all 5 seasons for over a month. I still crack up and love this show all the more every time I watch it.

Trump moves to permit new logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest: report

The Quickening A story of two births

Trump administration leaves menstruating migrant girls ‘bleeding through’ underwear at detention centres, lawsuit claims

Black breastfeeding week matters—mamas of color are not getting the support they need

What White Feminists Get Wrong about Black Women

Inspired by the women of scripture, Baptist minister champions reproductive rights

Sunday Snippets: Happy Mother's Day!

My mom and I are getting pedicures. We roll hard.

Abortion rights

The researchers found that “a year after being denied an abortion, 7 percent reported an incident of domestic violence in the last six months,” compared to 3 percent of the women who received abortions. The researchers concluded that this “wasn’t because the turnaways were more likely to get into abusive relationships,” but that “getting abortions allowed women to get out of such relationships more easily.”

Shut up and take my money

Because puppies

Happiest picture indeed

Sad but even more sadly, not surprising

In 2002, Iraqi officials asked for the return of the Gate, to no avail. A year later, the U.S. invaded the country.

Holy shit, that's awesome Bill Nye the Science Guy = one of my favorite people ever

Haven't tried this method, but plenty others

I used the sea sponge for awhile (you want to inspire awkward looks in a public restroom, try washing one in the sink sometime) but now I use cloth pads. I do have a few disposables at work, in case of emergencies, but I rather enjoy not having to literally throw my money away.

Names are important These women's names deserved to be told and remembered and they need to be found. & More Information

*headdesk* Yes please, let's pink-ify everything that has female attached to it. And people wonder why I don't want to reveal any future squidlets' gender ahead of time.

Truth

Oof, in the feels

It felt like buying a house meant buying the cultural narrative that came with it.

This. Right freaking here. I feel like this with all of the adult decisions I've made in the past five years.

*pets* I need to go exploring with my camera more.

Exactly. There are so many children lost.

That's terrifying

Because cats