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  • Thanks for Nothing!

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    kate
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    I’m in the process of flushing some really expensive sperm down the drain. In the process, I learned that the folks who collected it refused to label it with my legal name, on account of how girls don’t make sperm n’ such. Whoops!

  • What’s Up With Women’s Bodies?

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    kate
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    Yesterday, I was listening to midwife extraordinaire Ina May Gaskin on the Diane Rehm Show. One of the things that struck me is that American medicine’s childbirth orthodoxy essential boils down to: ‘Women’s* bodies, what the fuck is wrong with them?’ I first heard about Gaskin when my partner and I were studying for the…