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Jenna Sauers
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"In 1902, Australian women set a global standard by securing the right to vote..." Read more

How Sex Got Its Groove Back: Utah Outlaw Cool Edition Read more

For what it's worth, and take this with a grain of salt: As a policy student, I think it benefits politcal agendas to divide and highlight those differences (no matter how small). It distracts us from the larger social inequities that exist Read more

Actually, New Zealand is a very heavily urbanized country. (Around 87% of the population lives in a city; in the U.S. the figure is around 75%.) That's how our wilderness areas remain relatively pristine — nobody actually lives in or near them. The population is very small (around 4 million people) and the city I grew Read more

Your friend-of-a-friend wouldn't still have those voicemails and texts, would she? Read more

This photo deserves prominent, and repeated, publication.

Actually, copper IUDs are highly effective and have very few side effects. Current medical opinion in the U.S. is that they are safe for women regardless of whether they have been pregnant in the past. (Decades ago, they used to be recommended only for women who already had children.) It's "older" doctors who tend not Read more

IUDs are only the "most popular" contraceptive device if you count China, where they are common. China is not a country I tend to look to for leadership on reproductive freedom and women's rights. I have an IUD; I am a big supporter of IUDs. (IUDs are, in fact, the most-used contraceptive method among female medical Read more

You're right — that doesn't sound normal, and I would call a doctor. Although I will say that when I got my copper IUD, for the first couple of weeks I did experience a different kind of cramping than I'd ever had before, and spotting after sex. Both of which freaked me out. I'm not sure if it was a matter of growing Read more

and like most French families, the Nazi relatives were swept under the carpet and the Resistance ones glorified and their stories embroidered to the max Read more

You can watch the full clip, linked in the first paragraph — bear in mind I did have to edit a largely contiguous 5:15 segment down to a 2:27 clip. It's real. Read more

Thanks. Doing this made me realize how rusty my French is. Read more

I am not sure how this post argues that Dior's family were Nazi sympathizers? In case it helps, the original headline was "Christian Dior's Neo-Nazi Niece." Read more