Total: 11 posts
Posts in: Healthcare
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human trafficking/slavery
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the great risk it puts women in
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most woman who willingly …
- thinks Sanders has a very narrow path to the nomination (almost impossible).
- will vote for Clinton if she's the nominee.
- thinks Democrats and the Clinton campaign are setting …
Feminism
Capitalism
Books
Healthcare
BodilyAutonomy
SexWork
Shaming and Stigmatising Sex Workers isn't Feminism
A post on the Feminism Reddit proclaims: “Sex Work isn’t feminism”. A commenter on that thread said:
“The main reason I think prostitution is bad because
Humour
UKPolitics
Healthcare
Alice Thomson on Class and Society
After the shooting of United Health's CEO, this image has gone viral. Like most people, I saw it, and laughed and moved on. But after seeing a remix today of it, and I was curious about what the underlying context of it was. Alice Thomson is a …
Elections
SocialMedia
USPolitics
Healthcare
The Future of American Politics: Moving Beyond Party Lines
I woke up yesterday morning in my bed in Southeast England. I realized the country of my birth has elected Donald Trump again. I wrote this post in 2016 talking about the many reasons the Democrats lost to Donald Trump. Over the four years after the …
USPolitics
Healthcare
War
It's Foolish to Think of the Saving of Obamacare is a Victory
Many Democrats are celebrating the defeat of the Republican's attempt to "repeal and replace" Obamacare this morning. What the hell are Americans celebrating?
I'm an American ex-pat working for the National Health Service (NHS) in the United …
Elections
USPolitics
Healthcare
War
Bernie or Meh, The Clinton Path to Defeat
I’ll say it up front, I’m a Bernie Sanders supporter that:
Activism
Transgender
Healthcare
BodilyAutonomy
No My Bits Aren't Your Business or Your Trans Advocacy
Recently I read the en(Gender) post,"Guest Author: Zoe Dolan, When Political Correctness Hits Below The Belt." Helen Boyd states in an introduction to the piece:
"Here’s a controversial piece from Zoe Dolan, lawyer, author, and friend, in a …
Media
Elections
SocialMedia
UKPolitics
Healthcare
Scroungers, Benefit Cuts, and the Tory Media
This morning I was listening to LBC radio and the radio presenter, John Stapleton (who was sitting in for James O’Brien), took a call from someone that said the Tories don’t care about benefit cuts and people in poverty: [soundcloud …
Transgender
Reflection
MentalHealth
Death
Religion
Healthcare
Thoughts on Suicide, Living, and Dying
My mind has been in a million different places today. I read this thoughtful post by a doctor about a patient that committed suicide. I saw this today on dying with dignity:
LGBTQ
Religion
Healthcare
Why I Want To Be A Canadian
Very few times in life have I heard something so moving, so honest, and so historically relevant that it moved me to tears….
To my Canadian friends, I envy you… if all goes well, when I die, it shall be on Canadian soil.
I can’t …
Family
Religion
Healthcare
War
Holy Water of Jesus!
US Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, said recently “That [the] insurgency could go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years. Coalition forces, foreign forces are not going to repress that …
Media
USPolitics
Healthcare
Terri Schiavo
I told you so….
From the Florida’s medical examiner’s office:
"'She was incapable of surviving without her feeding tube,' Mr Throgmartin said, adding that she was blind and incapable of thinking, feeling or …
