Someone on the anthropologist community made this post about the anthro books she was selling on EBay. On a whim I clicked to see what books she was selling. Much to my surprise, the top of the list was Josh Roth's book. How strange to suddenly realize that other people read books by your own professors. Oh man, it makes me miss Mt. Holyoke. I've ( Read more... )

Fellow Moho littleghostgirl just posted this link to an article written about our beloved May Pageant - 26 years after Mary Woolley came to MHC.

Much to my surprise, I found out today that in the 1970s, Spider Man and Planned Parenthood collaborated on a comic strip. It's pretty incredible. Read it here.

From Dear Prudence:

Dear Prudie,My daughter is 5 years old and has, like most girls her age, a hamper's worth of stuffed animals. While she has her favorites, she constantly wants more and usually connives to get someone (read: her grandparents) into procuring a new one every couple of weeks. The new one immediately becomes her favorite and she ( Read more... )

Before working for Planned Parenthood, I had no idea there were such things as crisis pregnancy centers. Teenwire.com just did an article on them. Every time I read about crisis pregnancy centers it makes me sick. These centers masquerade as Planned Parenthood clinics and are almost always located right across the street. The one here in Tacoma is ( Read more... )

Look at all of the amazing classes that being offered by Seattle Tilth.

I am totally there for "Composting for Apartment Dwellers" and some of the other free ones.

And I'm definitely considering their Comprehensive Organic Gardener Program this fall. Now if I could only scrape together the money.

Helen Boyd wrote the books My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser and She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband. I've read the latter and it is full of astute comments on gender and sexuality, especially her transition from a heterosexual woman married to a man to a woman who is legally married to a trans ( Read more... )

goodbush, myself, and two other alums C. and A. were sitting outside of Remedy Teas on Saturday night, drinking, well, tea. C. was wearing an MHC sweatshirt and we were generally having a good time. At some point, a man comes up to the four of us and says to C., "Did you got to Mount Holyoke?" Well, yes, we all did, we respond. Oh really? he says. "Because ( Read more... )

Because I'm such a public health dork, I lifted this from nitedreamer's lj.

Just Say No to Bread!Important warning for those who have been drawn unsuspectingly into the use of bread ( Read more... )

I'm not usually one to be amused at other people's misery, but this story on the news was just too off-the-wall to ignore ( Read more... )