“When someone’s behavior is labeled culturally appropriative, it’s usually not about that specific person being horrible and evil. It’s about a centuries-old pattern of taking, stealing, exploiting, and misunderstanding the history and symbols that are meaningful to people of marginalized cultures.” Read more
Is Technology To Blame For Threats Against Female Journalists?
Women who share their opinions and thoughts online, particularly professionally, are frequently targeted for heightened, often criminal and discriminatory, harassment. They are more likely to start their work days and often end their work nights with graphic attacks on their credibility, intelligence, bodies, sex, sexuality, looks, and more, frequently framed in violent terms. A recent Read more
The 10 Plagues Of Election Season
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Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ Is The Epitome Of Black Girl Magic
“We could therefore say that every mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother, and that every woman extends backwards into her mother and forward into her daughter . . . the lives of her ancestors pass down into the generations of the future.” Read more
I Do Not Need To Be Surprised By Bigotry To Be Outraged By It
If you’ve never done it before, today is a really, really great day to start following the 1st rule of #ElonsLAW???@elonjames Read more
Diaries Of A High Femme Whore
I am an ambassador of reality and fantasy. I sit in on meetings and report back from two worlds. I contain multitudes. Read more
The Dangers Of The ‘Post-Abortion Syndrome’ Myth
“Denial is one of the aspects of Post-Abortion Syndrome. When memories do begin to come back, there may be dreams of the baby or recollections of the abortion clinic. Often guilt and grief might begin to appear. Depression is one of the first signs, along with anxiety and irritability. The woman may experience emotional numbing (…) There may be withdrawal in a marriage (or boyfriend) relationship (…) Sometimes we see repeated pregnancies, as if the individual is trying to replace the aborted baby. There may be difficulty concentrating, inefficiency in work, and a blunting of memory.” Read more
People Have Been Saying Weird Shit About Women’s Bodies For Centuries
From menstruation superpowers to cancer caused by semen, behold, a long history of messed-up ideas about women’s bodies. Read more
Serendipity And The Autism Spectrum
Yes, we are all different, but we are also made of the same stardust. Read more
When Robots Are An Instrument Of Male Desire
“Are these fucking people serious?! ‘Her’ entire purpose is to do what people tell her to! Hey, bitch, add this to my calendar, find me such-and-such about this-or-that, flip me a coin, tell me a joke or the weather, address me by this name, so on and so forth. The day Cortana becomes an ‘independent woman’ is the day that software becomes fucking useless.” (Bolding in original). Read more