It may or may not be helpful for you both, but every year I celebrate Halloween with the usual dressing up/candy but mainly in the Irish tradition of honoring the beloved dead. I set an extra place at the table for those who have gone before, put up photos of my late ancestors, parents, and husbands, and often have a…

“You can be of 100% Polish, Swedish, Russian, Nigerian or Chinese ancestry and also be 100% Mexican.”

When I lived in the UK, it always struck me as “different” somehow. Most of my friends studying international and comparative politics were *not* white but almost all of them were British - i.e. born in Britain and with British citizenship. There is tons of racism in both contexts but it’s really cool to see the…

It’s also incredibly hard to get hired and/or get tenure.

And we are told from the beginning to lie about all SORTS of things or no one will hire us.  So, race?  Yeah, I could see people justifying it (incorrectly) to survive in the academy.

That’s a chicken or egg question. A lot of them were in academia already, and realized they’d get more jobs/scholarships/fellowships by pretending to be a marginalized person with an “interesting” background (i.e. the type of person departments looking to diversify their faculty want to hire) rather than trying to get…

The woman in the article was an assistant prof of African American Studies. So was Rachel Dolezal. There are many fields of study in academia that are centered around gender or race. That’s why. By faking it, they obviously benefitted from some form of advancement or credibility.

I just typed a similar post. You can be of 100% Polish, Swedish, Russian, Nigerian or Chinese ancestry and also be 100% Mexican. Mexico is a diverse, world-class country containing people of every racial and ethnic group imaginable.

Sociopaths and narcissists exist in all industries.

I just want to remind people that Mexican is a nationality, and our nationality. It’s funny because as a Mexican/Puerto Rican from Mexico and Puerto Rico, it’s funny that I constantly see people from both nationalities in the US forget or omit that part constantly. Both countries have numerous races and while this…

Also, you’re having a baby with someone and never told them that you get letters from your dead uncle? Okay...

Yeah, he’ll just live on by working in some backwater town, buying the house in his mom or wife’s name and never opening a bank account. I’d suggest this woman use her GoFundMe money (after she pays her lawyers) to take a course in skip-tracing, private detection and becoming an expert in garnishing wages and making…

I’m a printmaking professor. It looks like a print I see at minimum once a year from students who make things last minute, as the fabric is material we have in printshops anyway.

It’s funny how something so mundane to me is so eerie to others.

That “Uncle Billy” story had like 20 creepy anecdotes too many. It would have worked a lot better if they had stuck to 2 or 3 incidents with him being a weirdo around town and then moved on. Obviously fiction and not even good fiction.

All of these are winners, but the car following the couple home and The Red House especially creeped me out. “I was by the closet.”

I don’t believe the “Uncle Billy” one, sorry. It sounds like every stereotype about traumatized, mentally-ill soldiers crammed into one story. Like you really think the guy is responsible for gutting a “murder victim” and you don’t call the police? You change your name, but somehow a guy who can’t even connect to…

I grew up in an old Victorian and certain windows used to do that, especially the one in my parents’ bedroom! It has something to do with the old sashes and weights in the window, but if you didn’t lock the top, it would jump up exactly like that. You could get it to stay down briefly, but not for long.  For the same…

backstory: the school I work at in Vancouver, BC is being seismically upgraded, as are many because many of the schools built in VSB are gaining on 100 years old. In March (2020), before spring break, we all tirelessly packed up our entire classrooms in boxes to be moved over Spring Break to our ‘new school’ for the…

Also, some places in the U.S. have had gender neutral bathrooms for a while. My brother’s trade school had them, and they managed just fine. And these were bathrooms with multiple stalls, not just a single-stall room. No one died from being exposed to people of other genders. 

“In this climate, who would challenge someone with a beard exposing their penis in a women’s changing room?”