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Jan 15, 2025 | huffpost.com | Huffpost Personal

A few weeks ago, I got my third IUD. You’d think I would have been prepared. I am one of the many women who girded her loins against the possibility of a “Handmaid’s Tale”-style dystopian future by getting my first IUD shortly after the events of Nov. 8, 2016. The idea that my uterus would calmly surf the waves of political unrest for at least another 12 years was appealing.

Dec 5, 2024 | huffpost.com | Huffpost Personal

It was Oct. 28, 2023. Gavin woke up late that Saturday and came out of the bedroom with his hand cupped around one side of his neck. “Hey, honey, does this side of my neck look bigger?” I looked at him, expecting to see a pimple or bug bite. But instead, I saw a bulge in the middle of his neck. I moved in quickly and poked it. It was hard, and the tissue around it was squishy. “Does that hurt?” I asked as I tapped it. He shook his head. “Does it hurt to swallow?” He swallowed and shook his head.

Nov 15, 2024 | huffpost.com | Huffpost Personal

I wrote the following essay eight years ago, when Donald Trump was first elected president of the United States. At that time, I was the head of HuffPost Queer Voices, a section of this site that I was hired to create and oversee in 2011. I spent a lot of my time writing about what needed to happen for queer people to feel seen and safe and, hopefully, at some point, gain full equality in this country.

Oct 31, 2024 | huffpost.com | Noah Michelson |Huffpost Personal

Using a public restroom is rarely a joyous occasion. They’re filled with sights and smells that can strike fear in the hardest of hearts (and stomachs), and still, most of us have to venture into them at some point if we ever want to live a life outside of our homes. So how can we make our time in a public bathroom better or safer or, at the very least, less gross?

Oct 11, 2024 | huffpost.com | Huffpost Personal

Preparedness is the key to surviving the throes of motherhood. It’s also the key to ensuring that the complexities of cross-country travel go off without a hitch. But all the books on motherhood and travel checklists in every type A traveling mama’s arsenal could not prepare me for the realities of how the Transportation Security Administration, Southwest Airlines, a five-star Las Vegas hotel, and society in general judge mothers and their needs.