While that absolutely sucks, since they are part of an organization with a hierarchy, legally they don’t have a leg to stand on. The Archdiocese outranks them and probably legally owns the building, not the nuns.

I am not sure people use it in college courses, but I know it is used in a few courses offered by NGOs in Rio and in Bahia for sure.. so maybe!

She published through an NGO, but I don’t think it is still printed - just archived in several black consciousness NGOs here in Brazil.

My mom wrote a book on Yoruba syncretic religions (in Brazil, but she also went to Africa, Louisianna, and Cuba for research) and she said it was mostly accurate. Like, more accurate than the L&O episode about it decades later or any other Hollywood portrayal...

Hit by a car on the way to the abortion clinic, like in Party of Five!

It is horrible that you experienced that, but it is also something I see. Even when I am teaching 8 or 9-year-olds, you see the ones considered weird being ostracized and bullied for not being exactly like the others. I talk to the kids and of course, stop it in my classroom and if I happen to see it outside, but kids…

The parents are usually worse than the children. I’ve been removed from a class cause a “concerned mother” said I was “setting a bad example” to “impressionable children” by having “obvious cosmetic surgery”.

“Girl who sat behind Meghan Markle in science class in 6th grade has shocking revelations!”

No, the fact she then drove said rental Hyundai to a place shady enough where it was stolen is the saddest thing.

Also, Diane Kruger may be a racist?

He also seems to be either... intense if you are being nice, or an asshole if you are not. I mean, he is hot, but I can see how Naomi would just peace out.

All I know about millenials is they pay a lot for avocado toast and like everything to be the color blush. But avocado toast is pretty tasty and blush is a nice color so I am not hating.

And crossing into desperation...

Thirsty is not the same as trying hard... though yes, trying hard is also seen as a sin in women a lot.

Exactly. Dirty sweatpants, sander, sawdust, cute little dog.

I did not know that and I usually know many useless words cause I am not a native speaker.

Ex...crement also works.

I call all these people just “relative”. My husband is one of those people who has lots of complicated “relatives”. Like, the children of his half-sister’s half-sister are “relatives”. Easier that way.

That one eyebrow, right?

I see him as the young man in Parenthood... and that almost stops me... but then doesn’t. But then makes me feel guilty.