The History of Birth Control. Luckily we have better options now. Check out bedsider for our awesome up to date methods.
Kind of puts things in perspective, huh?
(And thanks for the referral, dawgiestylerdr!)
(via sexreeducated)
Today was set to be long and my other half was getting on my nerves straight away (& by the end I can only sing his graces). After a dr appt, we decide to try a new place for lunch. I regret that choice now. Lunch done by 2:30, we head to mall for errands. I was a little worn out. Had to stop eating by 8 for a test today. After 7, my partner decides we should ponder food… But alas my tummy didnt like this plan. So, for the next many hours (about 8:30 - 2am) i was so, so sick.
I tried to lay in bed. I seriously cried. I threw up in my trash can. And then All Over the Floor by the trash can. I cried like a baby. My partner may be an RN but that doesnt mean that he can cure me. However, once i was done w the bedroom floor, i was gently placed in the bathroom. My partner snapped in RN role: mop, water solution, multiple pairs of (non latex! - im allergic) gloves, etc.
That said, even w/ 2 kinds of anti nausea meds (disolvable Zofran & Phenergan suppositories), it wasnt enough. I called.my dr crying. My GI dr knows that if I am considering going to the emergency, Im really That Sick or… I dont know? Desperate? So anyway, he feared that I was (or would be shortly) dehydrated, and that i may be making things worse. Also, how the holy hell was i still sick? And ew, but anyway.
I get that my partner cleans up after patients. But this is our home, he is not paid, and id prefer he not. Ive had exactly one other friend clean up after me when i was sick & she is a quite good friend who also just gets it. So. To rely on her is different.
So today was lousy and the ER was super stingy w meds, including Zofran. Lame but hopefully better soon
Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined. Lets get on the ball and spread the word.
I literally just repeated the f-word until I ran out of breath.
Let me catch my breath. I may go on a cursing spree again as soon as I get it back.
Seriously people…
WHY THE FUCK AREN’T PEOPLE REBLOGGING THIS??
(via fuckyeahgenderstudies)
JCPenney is featuring a same-sex couple in its Fathers’ Day ad, following One Million Moms’ failed boycott of the store for bringing on Ellen DeGeneres.
I’m starting to love them more and more.
(Source: vita-va-avantixox, via imgfave)
fuck yeah, hard femme!: Call for submissions: Nonfiction anthology of essays dealing with disabled people’s romantic and sexual issues
This book’s target audience is disabled people interested in dating, sex, and alternative lifestyles. The intention is to have essays that can educate people that range from the young novice who might not believe that disabled people even can have romantic relationships to people who want applicable information on safer and more accessible sexual practices. What we need you to do is pick something you know about, even if you’re not an expert in it, and write an essay to people of visible and invisible disabilities who might rely on what you write to change their lives.
Suggested topics are:
- How to speak to someone you’re interested in
- How and when to discuss your disability with the would-be partner
- What to prepare for when meeting a partner’s friends and family
- Accessible dating options
- Online dating and inevitably how to mention you are disabled
- How to express your specific sexual needs or inabilities to your partner
- Tips on how to have sex with limited movement, sensation, etc. and how to avoid pain or injuries that would otherwise not be a problem
- Tips on Masturbation with limited movement, sensation, etc.
- Participating in the LGBTQ community and making sure your limitations are accounted for
- Introductions into the BDSM community and information on how dom–sub relationship can be beneficial and healing for disabled people
- Introductions into the devotee community
- Suggestions and advice on how to identify someone who may be dangerously fetishizing you
- Information on the high rates of abuse and molestation of disabled people with practical advice on how to protect yourself despite an array of limitations
- Risks in pregnancy and information on how to have the safest pregnancy and birth possible
- Advice for the social condemnation that comes with being a disabled parent
- And any other subject that falls within these themes.
Are you a disabled stripper? Are you a disabled matchmaker? Are you a disabled person that has a genuinely interesting and valuable personal story that can contribute to this collection? I want your submissions. Be as quaint or explicit as you like, be as poetic or textbook–esque as works best for you.
Not all submissions may be accepted due to the risk of having too much of one subject being rehashed, so my suggestion to you is to be as informative as possible as well as to put a real signature touch with personal examples in your piece. I will not reject anything that I find educational and empathetic; if this results in encyclopedia size book, so be it.
Submission guidelines
Genre: Nonfiction. All submissions must be an essay on either specific subject or your personal experience
Length: No limitations
Content rating: No limitations. If you are writing about sexual practices we encourage you to be specific as possible given that you must address people’s limitations and methods of accessibility
Number of submissions per person: one unless otherwise agreed upon with the editor (me)
Submissions are open and must be e-mailed to me at hgiel@live.com no later than December 31, 2012. Your submission must be in document format, in English, have a title, and have a short biography of the writer at the end. You need not use your real name; we will accept pennames.
There will be no monetary payment for submitting, as this book will be nonprofit but each person who gets accepted will receive a free paperback copy.
It was recently believed that I would be funding this project out of pocket but Good Mourning Publishing has decided to publish this book for us as a companion to the book Accessible Love Stories, an anthology of romance stories featuring disabled people that they published earlier this year. They’ve been gracious enough to understand the purpose of this new book and will set the price at cost as planned, which means they’ll make no profit from the sales so if you can, please buy a copy of Accessible Love Stories because the profits will go into funding this new book. The e-book version is only a few dollars on Amazon.
The book’s title and cover are still pending but I’m accepting submissions right away. If you have any questions or concerns send them into my blog Gimpunk or e-mail me personally at hgiel@live.comReblogging for signal boost and to remind myself to read this when it comes out.
I’m planning on a release sometime in the spring of 2013.
Mostly for myself so I don’t forget
(via vagina-pagina)
Life Lessons Learned from being temporarily disabled
I think its important that the author notes that the world is not set up for people of all abilities
(Source: mymsdiary, via chronically-something)
this is a really cute chart.
i really wish there was a little cloud that said ”are you an english major using “gay” in the old-timey sense that means happy?”
(Source: itspronouncedmetrosexual.com, via ravensmuse)
