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May 12th, 2008
11:50 pm trinityva [Link]	There's one for everything... I don't know whether to be flattered, impressed, or disgusted that there is a splog about disability that keeps showing up on my Technorati reactions list. Ah splogs, you truly are about everything under the sun. Tags: disability, splogs, technorati (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
11:09 pm conuly [Link]	Okay, world? LIVEJOURNAL IS NOT PEOPLED WITH DOCTORS. Oh, I'm sure there are doctors here, but none of them can really prove it anyway. If you or your loved one or your KID is acting funny, and you have the opportunity to post on LJ asking "Gee, should I take him to the doctor?" - stop and think. If the odds are that everybody is going to say yes, get off the computer and head out now. Repeat the mantra with me now, everybody: WHEN IN DOUBT, CHECK IT OUT. I'm not saying you should rush to the emergency room on a Friday night just because your precious stubbed her pinky toe - but when you suspect a serious injury or illness just get up and go already. Don't waste valuable time posting on LJ, because your uninsured ass is just going to end up in the hospital anyway, might as well be sooner than later, right? GOD, people. Current Mood: aggravated Tags: livejournal, rants (6 comments \| Leave a comment)
09:39 pm conuly [Link]	Browsing around randomly, somebody gave me this link The USA Emergency Supply Website They're sure there's no rice shortage anywhere in the US, and I'm sure they would know, but... Meanwhile, just last Friday I happened to walk past a corner store that was hysterically full of rice. Piled from floor to ceiling (literally) in the window, and on every shelf, and on the floor where people didn't HAVE to walk. Not even all the best rice - a lot of it was "parboiled" or "instant" or what-have-you. Clearly, the proprietors of the shop read the news, saw that there might be a profit to be made on rice (a fair bet in an area where just about everybody's national cuisine features the grain), and just decided to run with it. Hoo-boy that was a lot of rice! Current Mood: amused Tags: daily stuff, food, news (Leave a comment)
08:07 pm conuly [Link]	Actual conversation had a few weeks ago.... Ana: Connie? Me (reading a book): Yeah? Ana: (I have no idea what she said) Me: Mmm-hmmm.... Ana: Connie! I don't like it when you say "mm-hm" because I think you're not listening to me! Me (closing and putting down book): You're right. I wasn't listening to you. Now. What did you say? Ana: I said, I don't like it when you say mm-hm, because it's like you're not listening. Me: Yes, I got that. But what did you say? Ana: sigh I said that I don't like it- Me: Ana! I know, I heard you! But what did you say before that? Ana: I didn't say anything before that. Me: Yes, you did. Ana: No, I didn't. I'm serious. Me: But... but... but... sighs Fine. I'm going back to my book now. Current Mood: cheerful Tags: 'cdotes, family (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
07:10 pm trinityva [Link]	They're not the only ones with dumb vice laws... http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4821609 Apparently a new Indiana law on pornography is so broad that an art museum is worried about the books it sells. (Anyone got a link to a transcript of that story?) Tags: news stories, porn (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
06:50 pm trinityva [Link]	And more news from FRIDA posted here, sadly a lot of it about violence: Lots of newspapers reported on Haleigh Poutre, a 14-year-old Massachesetts girl who is now communicating to investigators, using simple words and hand gestures, that her adoptive mother and stepfather, Holli and Jason Strickland, regularly physically abused her. But she has been unable to say anything about what put her into a coma. Poutre, who was initially diagnosed as being in an "irreversible vegetative state" after sustaining severe injuries to her brain from alleged parental abuse, has been in a children's rehab hospital in Boston for the last two years. Jason Strickland is awaiting trial on child abuse charges. Holli Strickland was killed by her grandmother, who then took her own life, shortly after she was charged. More here .... An East Fishkill man (White Plains, Westchester County, New York) who worked as an overnight aide at a group home will serve six months in jail for sexually abusing a woman with intellectual disabilities who lived in the home, according to this report in the Poughkeepsie Journal. An Irish woman who became disabled in an accident has been awarded compensation after her employers refused to let her return to work, according to this story from the BBC. According to the Houston Chronicle, states record show that about a quarter of the 800 employees fired or suspended for mistreating residents at Texas's state schools for people with intellectual disabilities worked at two state schools targeted by federal investigators: these are the Lubbock and Denton state schools. State records also show that nearly 58 per cent of the firings or suspensions came from four of the 13 state schools: Lubbock, Denton, San Angelo and Mexia. Several men accused of raping and assaulting a women with learning difficulties will not be prosecuted because she is considered to be an "unreliable witness," according to this report in the UK's guardian. A Marblehead man has been charged with raping a woman with Down syndrome, The Salem News reports. "Attitudes towards children with disabilities need improvement, parents say," is the title of this story from CBC news, Canada. "Scandal of elderly people tortured in homes" is the title of this report in the UK's Mirror. "5,000 complaints a month over care home abuse fears" is the title of this story in the UK's Daily Mail. A Glen Ellyn man has been sentenced to 36 years in prison for sexually abusing a intellectually impaired girl on six occasions before his arrest in September, the Chicago Tribune reports. From the Haleigh Poutre story linked above: Haleigh Poutre, a 14-year-old girl once diagnosed as being in an "irreversible vegetative state," has provided police with dramatic testimony about frequent use of corporal punishment during her childhood, but she has not given any specifics about what caused her to suffer a near-fatal head injury more than two years ago, according to two people with direct knowledge of her statements. Haleigh, who has spent the last two years at a pediatric rehabilitation hospital in Brighton, communicated with simple words and hand gestures in an interview last December. She also spelled out full sentences by pointing to letters of the alphabet on a board, reflecting the remarkable recovery of a girl who nearly was removed from life support by the state after doctors had declared her condition hopeless. She began to breathe on her own just as the state's highest court ruled that she should be allowed to die. Interviewed in her bedroom at Franciscan Hospital for Children, Haleigh communicated to investigators that her adoptive mother and stepfather, Holli and Jason Strickland, regularly used physical discipline, such as spanking her or slapping her in the face. When asked about being hurt during her childhood, she did not directly say anything about the weekend in September 2005 when she lapsed into a coma. Prosecutors have described her adoptive mother as the harshest of her abusers, but Haleigh expressed to police largely fond feelings toward Holli Strickland, who took care of the girl since she was 4. ....Prosecutors say, however, that Holli Strickland was as brutal in her abuse as she was masterful in her deception. Throughout much of Haleigh's childhood, Haleigh came to school with bruises and burn marks, which prompted more than a dozen complaints of child abuse to the Department of Social Services. But social workers and ultimately nearly everyone who knew the family came to accept the adoptive mother's explanation that Haleigh suffered from an unusual psychological disorder causing her to injure herself. Few suspected that Holli Strickland, who was biologically Haleigh's maternal aunt, would do anything to harm the girl. Holli Strickland was seen in the local Westfield community for years as a saintly figure who adopted her troubled niece, not a villainous child abuser, neighbors and relatives say. Especially see the bolded paragraph. Over time I've become more and more suspicious of people's ability to determine when cognition is present and when it isn't. I don't know what to believe any more. Other than that consequentialism/Utilitarianism looks less appealing to me with each passing day... Tags: abuse, disability, news stories, pvs, violence against pwd (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
06:44 pm trinityva [Link]	More violence... via FRIDA Sex offender pleads guilty to molesting disabled girl WHEATON -- A convicted sex offender is going back to prison for 36 years for committing the same crime he did nearly two decades ago. A DuPage County judge sentenced Gerard Schlaiss, 51, of Glen Ellyn, to six consecutive years in prison for each of the six counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse he pleaded guilty to last week. According to prosecutors, Schlaiss molested a mentally disabled girl who lived in his apartment complex over a three-year period leading up to his arrest in September. In 1989, Schlaiss was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in Lake County, according to the Illinois Sex Offender Registry Web site. He was 33 years old at the time of the abuse. Tags: abuse, disability, news stories, sexual abuse, violence against pwd (Leave a comment)
11:58 am trinityva [Link]	When will people realize... ...that not even being able to enter a building everyone else can is, well, bloody humiliating? From the wonderful Wheelchair Dancer: There are two steps up to the store. I really badly want to try some of their shoes. I exclaim, "Ah, the only inacessible shoe shop in San Francisco." But then, I see the access symbol and next to it a sign telling me where I can get in. I go into the lobby, turn to the door, and see ... a bench in front of the door and someone sitting on it. I yell, "What?" and throw up my hands. The two assistants yell back at me that they don't have the key, shrug their shoulders, and then turn away. "That's unacceptable," I yell. I am incensed. I go back around to the front and wait at the door, thinking that instead of yelling at me through the glass they might come out and talk to me. But no. They go on helping another customer. I can feel my temper boiling. I try to catch their eyes. No, they walk right past me. One of them steps into the window. She's right in front of me. She turns her back. Finally, I yell, "Are you going to keep ignoring me?" My friends retreat, urging me to let it go. And truly, I will have to let it go. There's nothing anyone can do without the key. But I can't let it go. I repeat myself more loudly. The woman stops. She repeats herself. And walks away. By now, I am hopping mad. I refuse to leave. There are several customers in the store. One approaches me; she wants me to know that this doesn't have to be an "antagonistic situation." I expostulate. They are all terribly nice people who aren't deliberately trying to keep me out. The bench can be moved. And, moreover, they are quite willing to bring stuff out to the street for me to try on. I point out that it is she who is doing this; the store people haven't even come out to speak to me much less make such an offer. And, anyway. It's illegal. I choke. They are displaying the access symbol. It's not fair. It's not right. ....You can't leave the store without a key. Disabled people shop on weekends, really. ....They should have come to speak to me directly instead of shouting through glass and ignoring me. They should have spoken to me. Current Music: Rammstein - Rein Raus Tags: accessibility, disability (9 comments \| Leave a comment)
11:38 am trinityva [Link]	Transphobia from the usual suspects... ....which you're probably all used to seeing by now. I link it only because the language in this particular post is impressively ridiculous. That is so well expressed, I could never have put it any better, “They may have changed the penis between their legs but the one in their heads is still fully operational.” Some might argue, and I would be one of them, that it is the penis in their heads that does the most damage to women. The physical body is almost irrelevant, what bits you’ve got, what bits you haven’t; what counts are the attitudes, the self-absorption, the sense of ownership over another’s body. They are the things, among others, that distinguish the ‘male brain’ from the female, and they are the things which keep women in a position of subordination to men. Radical feminists, including myself on several occasions, have often been called “transphobic”. It’s a pretty lame and meaningless insult that seems to be hurled by some people as soon as they hear that a woman is planning a women-only event. This just in: Esteemed radfem scientists have officially discovered that women "born male" (not even getting into why I don't like that phrase so much either) have PENISES IN THEIR BRAINS. Doesn't that hurt? (Couldn't resist...) Current Music: Rammstein - Feuer Frei! Tags: trans issues, wtf? (19 comments \| Leave a comment)
10:04 am conuly [Link]	An article on a kosher soup kitchen that's set up to run more like a restaurant Which is a good model that more places should seek to emulate. ( Read more... ) Times are so hard for everybody, and a lot of these families are, well, big families. Food prices have risen by, what, 50% lately? 75% in six years, as I read recently? Think how hard that is in a family with two kids - or no kids. And these families, a lot of them have four, or five, or six kids. Or more. And unlike some families, they don't have nifty contracts to be on national TV all the time, either. Current Mood: calm Tags: articles (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 11th, 2008
10:06 pm celticmoni [Link]	This is a perfect Mother's Day song. So much time gets wasted by frustration, limitations, life demands... the list goes on. Treasure your children. Treasure your parents. Whatever faults they may have, points of contention you may have with them...realize that your time with them, as they are, is finite. Harvest the joy. Love and peace to you all. :) (Leave a comment)
10:08 pm trinityva [Link]	I ain't saying she a... It's interesting to me (and by "interesting" I mean "annoying") that people always fish for explanations when a young woman, or someone people perceive to be so, dates an older man. The big one is "gold digger," the next down is "looking for Daddy," the next I sometimes hear is "wanting to learn from someone more experienced." I could shrug at people who said #3 was the case when I was dating faustopheles. Although I'd say it's vastly more likely we were just plain buddies who fell into bed, part of the reason we were buddies was that he was a more experienced top I trusted and felt I could learn from. My casual mentor became my (first) lover, and I really did learn a lot from him, so it's not exactly inaccurate. But I never really liked that -- the idea that I was somehow consciously choosing someone with whom things wouldn't "really" work out, so as to use him as some kind of knowledge object and dump him when I got confidence, moving on to hot young things. It just seemed so wrong and off for what we were, friends-turned-lovers. And totally didn't take into account that I was 21 at the time, and the tiny BDSM community I was part of didn't have a TNG at all. The "next generation" was, well, me. And now that I'm dating Monkey and it's serious and our feelings for one another are real and serious, it makes me wince to see those gold-digger stereotypes, or "she wants her daddy" (dude, my father is my good buddy, but I'd just as soon pretend his penis fell off in 1984), or there's some weird "learning" going on. I'm an experienced top. We didn't get stamped when I went to the club yesterday because they know me (well, know us, but I've been in the Scene much longer), ergo I don't need a hand stamp. Eh, I dunno. I know no one thinks I'm a gold digger (I wouldn't pick rocket scientists if I were, thanks; as cool as it might sound, we're both just poor overintellectual geeks from opposite sides of planet Bignerd.) And I just turned 29 myself a few days ago anyway, so it's not quite the same as it was. But it's still like nails on a blackboard to see it anyway. Or the whole it must be his midlife crisis whatevers. Nope, he's someone I watched bottom one day and liked what I saw so I hit on him. I can't say why. I think maybe it's got to do with denying agency, with this idea that a younger person can't have power (and I'm not sure the idea is even that a younger person can't, but rather that a younger woman can't, unless she's a mercenary. Which, all right, if that's what everyone signed up for, but I didn't.) I think that niggles at me, because it doesn't allow for what I was looking for: a good bottom to play with and be friends until I found someone to get serious and do D/s with... ...and they just happened to collapse and surprise me, happily. I guess the thing is that the official story, like most official stories, don't let people be people. Instead they make people into a weird thing. "Oh, you missed the obvious explanation for a hot chick with an old fart! HAHA." (On that note, can we retire that phrase? Farts smell bad. Older people know cool stuff about the universe and living in it.) We'd get along better, methinks, if the "obvious explanations" for socially deviant behavior were just a little kinder. Current Music: A Perfect Circle - Blue Tags: age, ageism, category defying, gold diggers, monkey, people are kaleidoscopes, shaming, stigma (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
09:52 pm chaoticidealism [Link]	CP, quality of life, and autism From a study in Pediatrics... hmm, last February, I think, maybe March: Children with severe cerebral palsy have better emotional well-being, a better self-concept, a happier attitude, less bullying, and more acceptance than children with mild cerebral palsy. In fact, if you didn't count physical well-being and independence as measures of quality of life, the quality of life by the measure they used (which was designed for typical kids) was pretty even across the board for the severely and mildly affected kids; in the subfacets above, it was higher... The only things that reliably made quality of life worse were chronic pain and parental stress. I am really pretty sick of people assuming that quality of life gets worse if you are disabled, and gets even worse if you're more disabled. You can't make that assumption. Life is just life, and I am really tired of people saying either "But your life would be better if you weren't disabled", or "You can't imagine what it's like to be more disabled." It's like being stuck in the middle--I'm not disabled enough to really know "what it's like"; but if I were more severely affected I wouldn't be able to talk to tell you I was just fine the way I am. Duh: I don't know what it's like to be another autistic person. But that's true whether or not we're functioning at the same level. Nobody ever knows what it's like to be anybody else; we can only imagine. Problem is, some people assume they know. So basically, using that reasoning they can just proclaim that if you can speak, then what you say doesn't matter; if you can't speak, then they'll just assume you're not happy and try to mess around with your brain. Never mind that 'speak' doesn't mean 'communicate'... but no, they don't listen to that either half the time. People ought to learn Autism As a Second Language in high school, really. (Leave a comment)
09:09 pm conuly [Link]	Few quick articles Dharma in the Dirt It comes with a slideshow ( Read more... ) After 60 Years, Arabs in Israel Are Outsiders ( Read more... ) An incredibly insulting reply to jypsy about the "Run the Dream" guy. An article on home wind power ( Read more... ) Preserving Fossil Fuels and Nearby Farmland by Eating Locally ( Read more... ) Change We Can Stomach ( Read more... ) Current Mood: bouncy Tags: agriculture, articles, autism, energy, garden, israel, links (Leave a comment)
08:34 pm conuly [Link]	Naturally, a day after I post about wanting to catalog the kids' books, somebody else posts So... librarything? Or goodreads? Librarything looks more popular, which may mean something. (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
08:15 pm conuly [Link]	Oh, wow Has anybody ever read about Cuba's "Special Period"? Sheesh, if even half of Wikipedia is correct today, it's the most fascinating thing I've read in the past two weeks. Current Mood: pensive Tags: links (3 comments \| Leave a comment)
06:16 pm trinityva [Link]	On Graham Coutts , and why the UK anti-porn law was not the answer Those of you who are following the anti-"extreme porn" law that just passed (yes? I heard that it did but am not entirely sure) in the UK know that it came about as a reaction to the murder of Jane Longhurst by a man named Graham Coutts. The idea was that this man had been looking at strangulation porn just before he murdered Longhurst, raping and strangling her. Therefore, taking away people's access to this sort of pornography can only help to prevent these sorts of things. As Caroline of Uncool points out, this law is hardly a solution; Coutts was not simply getting an idea from a movie. His interest in strangling women to death was longstanding. Here's Caroline: Speaking with regard to the Longhurst case, you all his fascination with asphixiation began years before he began to download the materials found on his computer (you all knew that, right? You didn't just think it was inspired by what he saw, you knew that he didn't look at material on the internet til a good 5 years after he discussed his fascination with his GP? I fucking hope you all knew that, I've got to say). Furthermore, with regard to him being a sick bastard, you all knew (I fucking hope) that he said himself he wanted to kill women since he was 15, even seeking psychiatric treatment, believing his thoughts would one day lead to criminal actions, 12 years before the murder? Guys, please tell me you did your research and didn't just trot out the half-baked theory you so frequently judge the sexosphere with. Please. Mrs. Longhurt's daughter is dead because of Graham Coutts. Graham Coutts killed Jane Longhurst. Here's the BBC: Graham Coutts was seen by psychiatrists in 1991, 12 years before he was alleged to have murdered Jane Longhurst, the jury at an Old Bailey retrial was told. He told them he feared his thoughts may lead to criminal behaviour. ....Consultant psychiatrist Dr Larry Culliford said on Friday he had seen Mr Coutts in December 1991 after he had been referred by his GP. Dr Culliford said the patient had complained of having enjoyable, murderous thoughts about women during sexual arousal. Reading from his notes, he said: "Accepts he has a problem and now says these are unwanted thoughts... that they are pre-occupying him to the detriment of his life and may also lead on to criminal behaviour." And another from the BBC: Ms Gates, who shared a home with Mr Coutts on and off over several years, said: "He actually said 'I have the feeling that I am going to murder a woman. I could strangle and murder a woman.' He was very, very distressed. "I was shocked about it and upset. I said 'You really ought to go and see someone about this.'" She told the Old Bailey jury Mr Coutts was excited by her distress and liked to tie her up with her tights and put his hands round her neck. Ms Gates said: "I would ask him to please remove his arm or hand. I obviously wasn't comfortable. It was obvious. I just felt helpless. I couldn't move. "Sometimes it was a loving relationship but more often than not it wasn't." Now as an ethical person who does SM, I don't know what to think about this guy. Part of me thinks that if he knew he was actually capable of violence, the hell with him, he's a monster. But I also know that when I first noticed sadistic impulses in myself, my first concern was whether they indicated I'd prove similar. I didn't want to end up committing violence, and part of the reason I went to therapist after therapist was to be certain I didn't need to be locked up so I wouldn't do terrible, unintended harm in a moment of passion because I'd slipped and taken things too far.* Everyone thought not, and I know now that this is in fact the case. But I didn't when I first started thinking it might be nice to see people bleed. Either way, though, whatever someone like me might or might not have in common with this guy, it really doesn't seem to me that taking away his pornography would do anything one way or another. I was thinking of the things I was thinking of long before I saw any pornography. As different as I'm sure I am from someone who actually kills (I don't see what that's got to do with sadism at all honestly; once someone's dead you can't hurt them any more, so it makes zero sense even if we do presume total amorality), I can't imagine we're different in that respect. He didn't think of killing women because he saw porn; he found the porn because of a fixation he was apparently trying to rid himself of and unable to. I can't imagine that pornography's availability would affect that one way or the other. This person killed someone. *Which may be the answer to "what's the difference?" right there; he was turned on by the thought of murder itself, and I was turned on by the idea of glutting myself on someone's pain and worried I'd slip and do something I wouldn't intend due to intense lust. (7 comments \| Leave a comment)
05:54 pm ssdi [schmishy] [Link]	Hey Guys! I just joined, and I have a question for you lovely people..... I'm 25 years old, and I've actually been collecting SSDI since I was born because I draw off my mother - she is totally blind, and worked for many years. So, she collected SSDI and it was automatically given to all three of her children because we inhereted her eye condition (the three of us are legally blind) Now, I've been working realatively steadily since I was sixteen (minus a few months here and there for surgeries) but I've still been able to collect because my earnings were so little. I'm currently in a certification program to become a high school english teacher, and I know once I make a teacher's salary I will no longer qualify for ssdi. That's fine and dandy because I'l be financially secure, but what if I ever lost my job or could no longer continue working? Do you think I'd be able to jump right back on, or would they evaluate me as a new applicant? I'm asking because I know that ssdi benefits are based on how much you've worked, and I guess I fear that if I didn't have enough years of working under my belt I wouldn't be able to have the same benefits I once had. I'd post this ti blindpeople but the community has been kinda dead lately so I thought I'd get an answer here. Anyone have any idea? Current Mood: curious (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
11:26 am celticmoni [Link]	Happy Mother's Day!! Current Mood: Maternal (Leave a comment)
02:00 pm conuly [Link]	Okay, here's another thing I don't get I occasionally (very occasionally - but then, I don't seek this stuff out) come across HP fic where, in an attempt to redeem Petunia Dursley we're informed that her husband is a physically abusive dolt. Abusive to her, that is, and sometimes little Dudders as well. I'll be the first to say that the treatment of Harry, as presented in the books (though I wonder sometimes if maybe it was originally intended as hyperbole, until JKR realized she wanted to write about Serious Subjects), but I'll note that we never actually see him hit the kid. Overblown threats, but no actual violence. (Which is not to say that it didn't happen, and certainly letting your kid beat up another kid isn't exactly being non-violent, but I'm trying to describe what the books say here.) More importantly, though, whenever Petunia puts her foot down in any way - he listens. Remember that first chapter? He goes through a whole day of trying to ignore the strange happenings before finally deciding, nervously, to bring up the subject to his wife - nervously because he knows she'll be upset. SHE'S the one who pretends she's an only child - she got mad at him! He's not beating her up to maintain this silence. This might, in fact, be the only time in the series that he's presented as anything approaching a sympathetic, three-dimensional character. We're told later in the book that he would have shipped Harry off to an orphanage, but didn't. Why? Because clearly his wife insisted on keeping him, for whatever reasons of her own. Heck, when he tried to kick Harry out during book... what was it, five? All Petunia had to say was no, and he dropped the subject. I think it's great that people want to flesh out some of that family. Terrific. But let's not all pretend that she was secretly a nice woman who was herself being abused. There's no support for this at all in the text, is there? Current Mood: annoyed Tags: fanfic, harry potter (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
01:05 pm conuly [Link]	An article on the move to one-car families Clicky! There's also a related blog post here. In the comments, some people are complaining about long walks with lots of young kids - not enough space in the stroller, and so on. Now, I don't know much about strollers, but I do know that I often see kids from daycares out for the day, and they're transported in these daycare strollers - four, six, or eight seats, often with the ability to swivel so the kids can be seated all looking at each other or all facing forwards. They're about as compact as you can expect from a stroller designed for a half-a-class-size, too. Current Mood: cheerful Tags: transportation (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
10:47 am trinityva [Link]	last night ( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. ) Tags: cuddliness, d/s, friends, play (12 comments \| Leave a comment)
10:37 pm intralimina [Link]	The Pill Saves maxomai has started a blog The Pill Saves. It is a collection of positive stories from women about birth control, including some women for whom birth control has literally saved their life. If you have a story, and care about a woman's right to have access to birth control for any reason, post it there. Whether you have a story or not, spread the word to others who might have positive experiences to share. More information at The Pill Saves. Tags: human rights, psa (Leave a comment)
01:25 am trinityva [Link]	doot doot doot long wooden smacky sticks and happy moany boys are fun! Current Mood: amused Tags: play (Leave a comment)
May 10th, 2008
07:55 pm trinityva [Link]	personal ( really personal stuff about anxiety disorder. don't read it if you don't want to know. ) (1 comment \| Leave a comment)

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