Yeah, Brown(whom I totally hope wins again) actually looked his best during the rare times they worked all night and stuff like that. It's weird that he just...looks like that, though, and sounds like it too.

I'm 53 and still regular. Well, monthly at least. My ob/gyn took me off the pill last year to see what would happen, and basically the only thing that happened was that I had a bunch of accidents in the first several months because I kept forgetting to keep track. 30 years on the pill is very convenient.

I was never able to take birth control pills, nor menopause meds, because they plunge me into a black hole of depression. Mother Nature was kind enough to stop the whole business when I was 47, and I have never missed it. Monthly periods! What the hell, man? Considering the functionality of various organs and joints, the human body is super poorly designed.

Yep, 50 and still getting one here. I've been on the pill for 30 years, but now they're calling it HRT instead of birth control. They can't take me off entirely because I take them mainly to avoid more ruptured ovarian cysts so...

Alice Wong died. You might have seen her on that show with W. Kamau Bell a few years ago. Not exactly like losing a friend, but we talked on socials a few times.I enjoyed her and took some inspiration from what she accomplished, even though I don't feel like I am in a place to be a Crip Elder Stateswoman in any way. (She was more conscious of living on borrowed time than I, aside from the fact that nobody in Gen X really thought we'd be our age--add in disability, though, and we've all seen a few fragile threads get snapped by now.) Unlike me, though, she had confidence in the disability community and its wisdom. I can't always relate, but that is something to aspire to. [link]

Damn. Alice was something of a local hero here. I never met her, but my friend-and-former-colleague Liz used to write (and talk) about her a lot.

Thanks for letting us know, Erika.

Yeah, what remains of Disability Twitter(spread across wherever) is kind of torn up today.

I'm really sorry Erika

So I haven't gotten another period after the one hat messed up my almost a year without.

I noticed changes in my cycle when I was around 40. I'm 52 now. So 12 years of changes and I hope I really am done .

It's sad, but she'll never have a case review ever again. That's not all bad.(That's how hard the system makes this, that part of me thinks about the lucky part.)ETA: She would probably never see it that way; I'm amazed by her ability to still feel like something came next, despite all the struggling. Hard to believe I'm old enough to be a mentor--I can't do it, but in theory. Still sort of think my period might come back, but it walloped me last time, so, no hurry.