Because when white men are the heroes of pretty much every damn book, movie, TV show, comic and video game they A) hardly ever have to identify with characters unlike themselves, which helps develop empathy, and B) have the message that they are more important than everyone else constantly reinforced, which helps…

If a guy behaved like this, he would be paranoid, because guys do not get sexually harassed and/or assaulted all the time. Whereas I do not know a single woman that has not been harassed many, many, many times. Not one. And about a third of the women I’ve known have been sexually assaulted or outright raped, not by…

My ex used to live in a neighborhood that had an unusually high concentration of homeless white people in their early 20s that had dreads and dogs wearing bandannas on rope leashes. One morning we watched two of them having sex directly under his window, on the sidewalk, in broad daylight, mere yards from a busy…

Purity tests are why Trump is in office. The right counts on our refusing to unite behind imperfect but qualified candidates because they aren’t ideologically pure enough to suit our lofty principles while they unite behind unqualified wackjobs with no principles at all and win because too many of us sit at home…

Yep, the profits from prisons and the industries that use prison labor go to rich white people, whereas the benefits from cannabis revenue help everyone else.

Your friends seriously need to consider recruiting as many low-level employees as possible to walk out and tell all lest Fox succeed in becoming the official state news channel of an authoritarian administration. They would no doubt be showered with crowdfunded cash and job offers from a grateful nation.

The only aspect of white privilege that I enjoy without guilt is the low expectations with regard to my dancing.

The primary effect of drug use on crime in the last couple of years is the drop in crime rates, incarceration rates, traffic fatalities, and opioid addiction of Colorado, Washington, and Oregon, which have all seen increases in tax revenue, infrastructure, and chill. Those governors met with Sessions to try and reason…

Seriously. There’s a reason why the majority of law enforcement agencies around the country fought tooth and nail against the Obama administrations efforts to require them to submit data about officer shootings to an FBI database.

Yeah, but in the UK, “coloured people” doesn’t have as much of a negative connotation as it does here. It’s a bit like cunt, which in the UK is a fairly mild insult often directed at friends that are being exasperating. They don’t put an “of” before “colour” just like they don’t put a “the” between “in” and “hospital.”

I assumed they were trying to monkey-fy him, counting on the iconic Shepard Fairey color scheme to indicate who it is.

Is Obama actually rich enough to shell out ~$30 million? Because in any group, one person has to own a third.

Is Obama actually rich enough to shell out ~$30 million? Because in any group, one person has to own a third.

This is why I spend a few minutes a day on Deadspin, even though I’m not really into sports, and actively hate football. But I have to transcribe a lot of sports clips for my job, and thus I discovered a whole new facet to racism that I had been hitherto unaware of, such as the way black athletes are framed as…

Steotch.com is full of the most amazing and hilarious cross-stitch. There’s something about seeing prettily embroidered rap lyrics that just kills me.

Fuck Quentin Tarantino directing it. Patty Jenkins should do it.

What is this Oscar curse of which you speak? For Mr. Weinstein assures us that her having won an Oscar made her too powerful for him to have been able to derail her career.

For people who insist visible symbols of racism are an important part of history that should be preserved, they are remarkably reluctant to engage in any discussion of that history.

Now you are.

When Clarence Thomas denied he ever watched porn, I was yelling at the screen, “you lying motherfucker, I’ve rented it to you.” If I hadn’t gotten fired for taking a week off to shoot pictures of my boyfriend’s band on tour because I was an irresponsible 18-year-old, I’d have sent his rental history to the Washington…