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Show this photo to your daughters as they grow up.
Show them that courage is important, even in the scariest of situations. This woman stood up and faced her fears, spoke her truth in front of a group of men while balancing the world on her shoulders. She is a hero. She is a representation for all women who are done being assaulted and abused.
I Believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
I believe her !
The clock behind her makes her look like an angel of justice.
Yes, it's a real thing!
Candacy Taylor, Scholar-in-Residence, Schomburg Center, New York and contributors on the Green Book Guide.
Candacy is one of a growing number of writers, artists and filmmakers who have rediscovered the Green Book. ~ The Travel Show (New York City)
Last week, misogyny from military doctors cost me $125.
And that’s the least troubling part of the whole experience.
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I’ve been thinking about this again lately. This was when I worked as an independent contractor, and now that I own my own business providing training to universities and hospitals (working with independent contractors like I used to be), I was thinking about how I’d handle it. I don’t know.
We do work with VA doctors and NPs and so far they have been fantastic, but they’ve also all been residents and had less choice in the matter. This is still so important and so disregarded.
Missed Sunday #clpp2016 but recovery day=vital. #selfcare is all you can eat sushi
Family Christmas photo: final product, and behind the scenes.
A bad patient experience can be isolating; we believe it's important to share and validate these stories so people know they're not alone.
Have you had a bad experience where you were dismissed, ignored, or even actually hurt by a healthcare provider? We believe that sharing our stories helps us, but is also an important step toward raising awareness and creating change in the medical system.
Please check out the above link and fill out the survey if you are willing to share your story!
For the record, I am the managing director of Praxis Clinical; we go into medical schools and hospitals to teach students and practitioners how to do better, more empowering gynecological and andrological exams. Sessions are taught by clinical teaching associates (CTAs), who use their own bodies to teach. We also go to universities and community programs to teach self-exam and other health literacy workshops. We’re all about patient empowerment and lay people changing the medical system. Healthier patient-provider relationships for all!
Dad: When you and your sister were born I was sure it was all socialization, and I was determined that I wouldn't treat either of you any differently than I would a son. I don't believe men are in any way better than women... but I mean, I wouldn't call myself a feminist.
Me: What? Why not?
Dad: Well, because I'm not a woman and I can't ever know what it's like in a woman's shoes.
Me: ...you mean you're an ally but don't want to appropriate our experiences or safe space?
Dad: I would never have used those words, but I guess so.
Dispatches From Trauma Island
After the tragedy comes the math. I was twenty-seven weeks and four days pregnant when my daughter was stillborn at the end of May, which means I should have been thirty-two weeks and five days pregnant today. Our doctors are performing their own mysterious calculations to determine the probability of this particular thing—non-compaction cardiomyopathy, is what it is called—happening in future pregnancies. It could be twenty-five percent. It could be less than one. Hopeful math: my grandmothers had fifteen children between them; my mother had three; I have twenty-eight first cousins. There are losses in my family but even factoring those it all adds up to a rosy picture of health, fertility, loud Thanksgivings. Call this nightmare pure bad luck and try again. Resentful math: we come home from the hospital on the day they tell us we’re going to lose her, and the Duggar molestation story has broken. Josh Duggar has four children; his terrible parents have nineteen. There are bad parents everywhere, parents who abuse and brainwash and neglect, and all of them seem to have housefuls of children. We do not get this one. This one we wanted without a shred of ambivalence. There are pregnant women everywhere; there are babies everywhere. Too many to count, but none of them mine. This last is the most dangerous math, the least helpful, the kind I work the hardest to avoid doing.
I’ve been practicing what I will have to say to the people who don’t know yet, the people who knew I was pregnant and will wonder why, a little too soon, I’m not anymore. My hairdresser. My college professors who saw me in April. The nice man at the corner bodega who just a couple of weeks before it happened asked, “Are you…?” and then made a wide arc over his stomach with his hands, and was so sincerely happy when I confirmed I was. At some point, to someone, I’m going to have to explain. “We lost the baby” is the accepted euphemism but such an inadequate descriptor of what we went through. It sounds vague and a little careless, like we stopped paying attention, like we briefly lost sight of her and then she was gone. At the point we were at when we lost the baby, “we lost the baby” means we’d already acquired a crib, a car seat, a onesie covered in foxes. An infant thermometer. A hardcover copy of Madeline. At the point we were at when we lost the baby, “we lost the baby” means I had no choice but to give birth to her, to feel contractions, to push. All the usual trappings of childbirth and none of the rewards. At the end, we did not hear her cry. At the end, it was just over.
Isn’t this depressing?
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Brand new baby #kittens nesting in my bed.
The original edition of this post was written for Tumblr last August. Until my post on "ASL for Autistic Adults in Tight Spots" (see previous post), it was my most-Tumblr'd piece. This edition is ...
That neurodiversity paradigm shift when you switch from, “I’m a fundamentally lazy underachiever,” to, “wow, look at how well me and my brain have done in a world not designed for us!”
It takes a lot of patience to talk to a condescending Fox host about race in America. Kudos to these Baltimore community leaders for a job well done.
"If society is going to stigmatize me and spend millions of dollars to label me and my child as a public health issue, I deserve at the very least, the basic right to share my truth."
“My pregnancy was this lightning rod for people to blame all of my issues and all of my problems, but the reality is that preventing a pregnancy does not increase opportunities for young people. It does not improve their equitable access to quality education. It does not make their communities safer. As a society, we’re so focused on making sure teens don’t get pregnant before their 20th birthday that we miss out on conversations about consent, healthy relationships, and agency.”
Word of the Week: Autochorissexualism
Word of the Week: Autochorissexualism - a disconnection between oneself and an object of arousal
Autochorissexualism is most often found in asexual people. It is defined as a disconnection between oneself and a sexual target/object of arousal. This may involve sexual fantasies, or arousal in response to erotica or pornography, but with no desire to participate in the sexual activities involved. A similar feeling may occur in aromantic people for romantic fantasies. Autochorissexualism is…
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I use my own body to teach medical students how to perform pelvic exams. And it's the best, most empowering work I've ever done.
I’m sitting on a low exam table in an Orthodox Jewish medical school, wearing a hospital gown, waiting for my students to arrive. They knock on the door, and I call, “Come in!” There are five of them. They are all men, they are all tall, and they all look very professional and authoritative in their white coats. Two of them are wearing wedding rings; two are wearing yarmulkes. All five of them are about to see my cervix. And they are all, it becomes immediately clear, completely terrified.
I wish this was introduced in the UK. We are expected to learn those examination techniques on real patients.
Where did you go to school, if you don’t mind me asking? They actually do use clinical teaching associates at (I thought) the majority of UK medical schools (or at least the ones in England?), though they teach in a different model than we do.
How many of you were expected to learn on a patient at once? Was it you and an attending, or several students together?
How to relieve menstrual cramps using pressure points.
I learned this method about a year ago and my life has been indescribably better since, so I decided I would share. :) (Edited to add: Infographic is all my work!)
SECOND EDIT, 1/13/2014: The information about caffeine might have been mistaken, so just in case, I’ve taken it out and replaced it with some pain killer specifics (thanks to pharmacology student onepieceawesomeness in the notes for that)! New image has been uploaded!
