Jody Allard

A flight home from Disney World became a nightmare for an Oregon family after the flight crew

My only regret is that I wasted nearly 40 years trying to bend my chronically ill body to an imaginary idea of perfection.

A new study released Thursday by the Centers for Dise

Only highly educated white people seemed willing to consider the idea that their children might learn best without any instruction at all.

As you've probably gathered by the explosion of pink everything, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And, while many people try to spread awareness with the best of intentions, there isn't anyone left on this planet who hasn't heard of breast cancer. Breast cancer patients need many things, but sharing silly Facebook statuses and engaging in other click-it-and-forget-about-it forms of awareness isn't one of them.

In today's news, the sky is blue, Republican lawmakers are assholes, and the House just voted to defund Planned Parenthood. Again.

The thing about trauma is that it creates inherently unreliable witnesses. Victims tell as much as they can bear to tell, in that moment, and perhaps even as much as they can remember. Memories can be hazy and dim until the second that the curtain is lifted and the body is thrust back into the moment of abuse. There is no such thing as one way of processing trauma, and there is no perfectly linear path to recovery, either.

ICYMI, half of my home state of Washington, as well as our neighboring state of Idaho, has been or is currently on fire.

As the relationship ends, when divorcing a narcissist, you are no longer useful to them, and they no longer feel any obligation to treat you civilly.

In case you need still more proof that feminism is desperately and unequivocally needed, here are three completely horrible stories from this week alone.