- 1. Feminism Includes Disability Advocacy: What to Mark on Your Calendar This Fall
- (Feminism)
- ... risks of developing Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy. Some individuals with Down Syndrome lead otherwise straightforward lives, while those with more severe impairment can require lifelong care. Early ...
- Created on 03 October 2019
- 2. The Legend Of The Unicorn Goes Back Almost 2,500 Years
- (General)
- ... as a potion, is a protection against deadly drugs. He also states that those who drink from the horn are not subject to either convulsions or epilepsy, writing: Indeed, they are immune even to poisons ...
- Created on 18 September 2018
- 3. "Lizzie" Retells The Lizzie Borden Story With A Feminist Twist—But Doesn't Quite Wo
- (Movies)
- ... It looks like epilepsy and feels like Betty Friedan's "the problem that has no name"—a physical expression of rage at the limits of a sexist society. For her part, Bridget goes to work for the Bordens out ...
- Created on 14 September 2018
- 4. What Happened To The Wild Ravens Of London?
- (General)
- ... either develop epilepsy or die. A bit less severe is the Irish superstition: “If a raven cries at the foot of the husband’s bed, it is a sign that his relations are coming.” Etching for Edgar Allan Poe’s ...
- Created on 31 July 2018
- 5. What Happens When You Fall In Love With Someone 4,000 Miles Away
- (Living)
- ... I wish for. Top photo: Flickr Creative Commons/fdecomite More from BUST I Am More Than Who I'm Humping Seizure Or Hangover? On Living With Epilepsy When Online Dating, Beware Of "Buck Boilers" ...
- Created on 21 April 2017
- 6. 11 New Books By Women To Read Right Now
- (Books)
- ... if a symptom is tied to past trauma or imagined reality, the symptom itself is not imagined. In other words, while one patient's seizures are real, her prescribed cure is not epilepsy medication, but therapy. ...
- Created on 21 April 2017
- 7. 6 Ways Smoking Weed Is Good For You
- (Living)
- ... for getting high. CBD, or cannbidiol, is a compound in cannabis that doesn't make you high. In a recent study of Epidiolex, an epilepsy medication derived from CBD, seizures in patients from ages 2 to ...
- Created on 20 April 2017
- 8. How Victorians Saw Masturbation
- (Sex)
- ... from blindness, impotence, and epilepsy to chronic fatigue, mental derangement, and even premature death. Many of these beliefs can be traced back to two 18th century books, the most significant of which ...
- Created on 02 August 2016
- 9. These Haunting Photos Are A Tribute To 'Hysterical' Wome
- (Arts)
- ... chronic illness, and epilepsy. The images are a link from Freud’s era of hysteria to the current stigmatization of women with disabilities as being haphazardly deemed as deranged or broken. My aim is to ...
- Created on 11 July 2016
- 10. Seizure Or Hangover? On Living With Epilepsy: BUST True Story
- (Living)
- ... the morning. I have a specific type of epilepsy called Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy. I mainly get three types of seizures: tonic-clonic, absences and myoclonic jerks. Tonic-clonic seizures are the "classic" ...
- Created on 11 July 2016
- 11. #JusticeForSandy: Was The Sandra Bland Arrest Video Edited?
- (General)
- ... the death was a suicide and Waller County Jail has confirmed Black hung herself, yet friends and family of the 28-year-old refuse to believe she would commit suicide. Skepticism around Bland’s epilepsy ...
- Created on 22 July 2015
- 12. Babies Of The Future Could Have Three Genetic Parents
- (Living)
- ... comes into play on the healthy mitochondria front. The goal is to help women with severe mitochondrial diseases like epilepsy to have healthy kids. The U.K. will eventually be able to pass research on ...
- Created on 04 February 2015
- 13. Pe'ahi by The Raveonettes: Ominous Surf Rock, Yes Please
- (Music)
- ... for your transition from summer to fall, especially the single “Summer Ends.” (trigger warning: don't watch this video if you are prone to photosensitive epilepsy). They just released new lyric ...
- Created on 30 July 2014
- 14. IUD, You UD: Mirena IUD Review
- (General)
- ... I was 17, and was on the pill until two years ago when I determined that my epilepsy was affected by the brand I was on (Ortho Tri-cyclen Lo). I talked to my gyno candidly about the two versions of IUD, ...
- Created on 15 May 2013
