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Dear Health Care Provider

Dear Health Care Provider,

No, I am not “willing to reconsider” intuitive eating and Health At Every Size. And by your asking me that, I’m going to guess you don’t have much idea of what they are, so let’s start with a review.

Health At Every Size says that there is so much we can do to [...]

NPFP Guest Post: No Jabs, Please

Welcome to RMB’s Naked Pictures of Faceless People, a series of guest posts from diverse anonymous bloggers. (Read more about NPFP’s origins.) These are the posts that are jumping to get out of us, but for whatever reason — safety, embarrassment, conflict of interest, protection of loved ones’ reputations or feelings, or so on [...]

Where is the mutually agreeable solution? — When parenting calls for blood draws

Welcome to the April Carnival of Natural Parenting: Parenting advice!

This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month we’re writing letters to ask our readers for help with a current parenting issue. Please read to the end to find a list [...]

My brain has been replaced by a slimy grey slug

This is my brain. The leaves are my cranium. Or maybe hair. I don't know, look at my brain, can it reason these types of tricky questions out?

And I think the slug just went into hibernation. (Do slugs hibernate? I bet I would know that, if my brain hadn’t been replaced by a maybe-hibernating [...]

Blog for Choice Day 2010: Trust Women

I’m pretty bad at planning ahead, and as usual I’m a step or two, and a day or two, behind the rest of the world (or the blogosphere, at least). So here is my belated entry to this year’s Blog for Choice Day, on the topic Trust Women:

First, go read Do you REALLY trust women? [...]

It all falls down

For the 20th time since the Boychick was born, my uterus sheds its endometrial lining. For the 20th time since the Boychick was born, it all slides down my vagina, falls between my lips, is absorbed by the cloth between my legs. I’ve talked about that before.

Here’s what I don’t talk about: all month, all [...]

New post up at “I blame the mother”

I blame American woman, who are all potentially mothers! by I, your cheating-on-you-with-another-blog-but-hey-I’m-letting-you-know-about-it bloggess.

Featuring lines such as:

nope, it’s all because American cis women of childbearing age apparently scarf narcotics, nicotine, donuts, dope, and dirty, dirty dick willy-nilly.

Reader maria raves:

this post made me seethe with rage, but also laugh. because you rule.

Go, read, laugh, seethe!

(Never fear, [...]

What timing! ACOG releases asshat statement

I do believe ACOG must stand for American College of Obtuse Gynohaters. (Other suggestions from Twitter friends: Appalling Care, Obvious Garbage; Aberrant College of Greed; American College of Oppressive Gits*. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments!)

Unbeknownst to me, just days before I published Just like athletics: exploring a childbirth analogy, the [...]

My letter to President Obama

Dear President Obama and Staff,

You were elected in large part on the topic of health care reform, including a public option. I voted for you in large part for health care reform, including a public option, only because there were no viable candidates that supported a single payer option, which is the only truly equitable [...]

Shame on shame: fat acceptance, fatphobia, and fitness

One common refrain of critics of fat acceptance (and the closely related philosophy of Health At Every Size) is that it discourages “getting healthy”, and encourages people to sit on their duff and scarf donuts (possibly of the baby-flavored variety) all day. According to this line of thinking, accepting fatness encourages fatness; without the prodding [...]

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