May 2019: This page has now been updated to redirect broken links. A permanent copy of the 'Access to Buildings and Services: Guidelines and Information' can be found here. If you live in Australia and you're having/or have had problems accessing goods and services, particularly if those goods or services are located within a building that's impossible for you to access … [Read more...] about Access to Buildings and Services
Coming in From the Cold… and a Life Off the Streets
You know, these days, women can do whatever it is they like with their bodies. We live in an age of feminism, freedom and choice; it's a given in Australia, and in most western countries that women are free in this respect—but that is not the case for everyone. Each year, when things get tough, hundreds of women in Melbourne turn to the oldest profession for financial … [Read more...] about Coming in From the Cold… and a Life Off the Streets
Goodbye Emerald Green Strappy Heels
Here is a joke for you all: Q: What is the definition of self-torture? A: A woman who has a shoe addiction, yet has also been tested and diagnosed as sensitive to chemicals! ~ aka ~ Michellina Van Loder I'm not really that type of woman… What 'type'? I hear you ask. Well—the type of woman who finds the gratification of buying and wearing shoes, intensely emotionally … [Read more...] about Goodbye Emerald Green Strappy Heels
How to Seal in Fragrance on a Steering Wheel
I know the title of this post reads funny, but stay with me here. Seven years ago, two years after being diagnosed as sensitive to chemicals, I found myself in the position of needing to purchase a car. The car I was driving—although it was a swank model, had leather seats, and a rockin' stereo—was making me intensely ill, and it wasn't until I moved to live near the ocean, and … [Read more...] about How to Seal in Fragrance on a Steering Wheel
Eating Organic Verses Conventional Eating
While procrastinating on my Pintrist account, I came across this on Environmental Illness Network Minnesota's Pintrist: Source: visual.ly via Environmental on Pinterest … [Read more...] about Eating Organic Verses Conventional Eating