See, I can see the police raising awareness for domestic violence. That’s a logical association!

oh no, cops LOVE to use pink handcuffs on big tough dudes as a way of embarrassing/humiliating them.

I like him. Stewart was brilliant, but he seemed sort of worn down by the end (for obvious reasons) and Noah is fresher. And he’s very easy to watch in his own right.

Normal people go to the internet for their nudes. This guy obviously wants to dominate the girls. He doesn’t care about the pictures. He just wants to show he can make people do what he wants. And if they don’t, they get slaughtered.

Jesus kid get your nudes from the internet like the rest of us.

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

True story: some guest’s +1 did this at my cousin’s wedding; it was basically a wedding dress if you married (hah) a little black dress and a wedding dress. Office printer paper white and more lace than the actual bride’s dress—justified, of course, by the fact that the +1 had been married 5 months ago and considered…

Also, just WTF with this statement.She is actually saying that women should just work harder than men to be treated equally. DO MORE WORK TO BE TREATED THE SAME. I just. I just can’t.

I promise you that I would. Not because I was so great, but because this was that bad.

The entitlement in telling another woman what to do with her eyebrows. I just — not to be obnoxious about it, but this is how women enact and enforce the patriarchy on one another.

I had no idea that I would be using this gif twice today.

There's a charming and alarming anecdote in the book where Ellen and William are separated on the trip and Ellen, frantically searching for him, tries to engage the assistance of a conductor. Unfortunately, the conductor was an abolitionist sympathizer, and basically told her William was probably long gone and he…

OK. I see what you mean. This reminds me a bit of a Puerto Rican poem about a light skinned man who hides his darker, more obviously African looking grand mother in the kitchen when his friends come over. He can more easily pretend and be accepted as white as long as the evidence of a more complex ancestry is not…

If you find yourself in Beacon Hill and have some time, I highly recommend the Museum of African American History. When I last visited, they had an exhibition on Africans in Asia, which was really interesting.

I probably wouldn't say anything to them. Ever again. Cutting them out of your life is probably a good way to go.

Great story, thanks for posting it, Mrs. Serratore! It reminded me of an aspect of racism in the US that always intrigued: the one drop rule. Because here in Brazil, my country, we had slavery and we surely have racism, but the criteria is simply visual: if your skin is clear enough, you get all the social perks of…

What do you say to someone who is convinced that the civil war was not about slavery, who says that not all southerners owned slaves, and that slavery was just the excuse needed for the war.

Despite floundering a bit this season, that show has had some good moments acknowledging what life was like for Black people in the US during the American Revolution. Another one I can think of is the voting one (credit):

Not sure, but William Wells Brown—an escaped slave who ended up in England and wrote the first novel published by a former slave—wrote Clotel (about the titular character and her sister, both fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson) and used the Craft's escape plan in the novel! There is personal correspondence…

Where is the movie? Someone make it right now.