All those who oppose gun control must go — When I was young my best friend married an Englishman and moved to Brighton. Visiting her there and noting the difference between our two countries was eye opening. I remember coming home after a stay and vowing to support gun control and universal healthcare here in the U.S. Both are…

And Mrs. Kavanaugh, Mrs. Gorsuch, and maybe even Mrs. Thomas… —

Book review: ‘The Right to Sex’ by Amia Srinivasan — Amia Srinivasan blows my mind from the very first sentence in the preface of her 2021 book, The Right to Sex. I experience life in 2022 as a kind of groping in the dark, a thrashing from side to side amid an inescapable nightmare, a probably idiotic push to continue…

Please god, medicate me against my will — There’s a big problem with the disability rights activists who want to block the state from medicating mentally ill people against their will. Those activists aren’t protecting the people who are scruffy and beat up and screaming on street corners. They’re protecting their disease. I’m the mother of an adult…

How dare the state insist that women perform it against their will — I’m not sure why I never thought of it this way before, but pregnancy is work. It’s dangerous, debilitating, and costly unpaid work. I first got that idea when reading this piece by marlene rosette in Fourth Wave: Reproductive Work and Male Privilege medium.com Why hadn’t I understood that before? I’ve been pregnant four times and…

And contraception, and gun safety, and what we do in the privacy of our bedrooms — Democrats fucked up. We didn’t keep our eye on the ball. We dithered and cringed and held out for perfect when just getting the job done with spit and duct tape would have been better than this. Jay Michaelson at the Daily Beast said it best. The Christian fringe has…

Women providing illegal abortions in Chicago in the late ’60s are the role models we’ll need soon — Thank you to poet and playwright Evelyn Jean Pine for inviting me to see The Janes at the SF Film Festival last week. I’d never heard of the collective before — a group of young women who provided illegal abortions in Chicago in the late ’60s and early ‘70s —…

And nature is a form of art — There’s a lot of pain in the world right now. Close by, a friend’s husband has been diagnosed with an incurable disease that affects his ability to walk. Another friend is alienated from her daughter and granddaughters and threatens to cut me — her oldest friend — off because of…