I got this a lot. And I resented my sister for it— then as young adults in peak eating disorder, I was confronted by my sister who begged me to eat again. Not for my health, but because I was the smart sister, and “being pretty is the only thing I have on you.”

“I don’t know what you would have done if we hadn’t adopted you- you wouldn’t make a very good prostitute”. (Adopted as a child from a communist country. It was a true statment, but vulgar coming from a parent. Emancipated shortly there after).

I starred this, but not because I approve of your mom’s behavior.

“You are the fattest person I’ve ever had the misfortune of meeting.” -Mom

It absolutely blows my mind that he tells his story, and so many others share their stories, and we still have so many effing people who respond with, “Nah. Not a thing.”

Use it to club blood profiteers and warlords to death.

Give it to a foundation that fights against slavery in diamond mines? Give it to Amnesty international who actively works against violence linked to the diamonds trade?

First, let’s take away their ability to buy guns or receive help from the state. Next, let’s put them on a list. Third, let’s make them wear a nice yellow badge. Fourth, let’s find areas that we can concentrate these people into for safety. Maybe some sort of camp?

Saw a Trump bumper sticker.
Briefly thought about the insurance hit I would take if I plowed into the car.

Toilets are so useful.

It’s terrifying to me that Islamaphobia has become even more pervasive and seemingly normalized in the past week. I live in a city with a massive Middle Eastern population, many Muslim students attend the high school where my SO teaches. He got a heart breaking email from one last night saying he would be seeing a new…

First, the writer notes that in the aftermath of the bombing of Turkey’s capital Ankara that took over 100 lives and injured more than 400 others just over a month ago, there weren’t any similar shows of solidarity during international matches

“It’s rather convenient when a studio decides to put money behind a period piece like Suffragette, because it is much easier to pretend like people of color weren’t around in 1880 than in say, 1970.” damn, if I ever learned anything from Shade Court, this is some well-played shade

Yeah, I had the same response. It makes me tear up a bit now when I think about it.

This made me sad laugh

This patriotic hijab wearing woman is the boss and with everything in the news making me sad and angry, her bad-assery is like a soothing balm.

This is the same crapola that surrounded Serena Williams a few years ago, when she won Olympic gold and danced in victory, everybody lost their shit cause she was doing the “crip walk” dance, and thought she was signaling thug life.

Jerking off to the thought of denying refugee children entry to America.

So where is the pro-life, “pro-family” movement on this one?