I appreciate that there is a typical, “wrong time, wrong circumstances” abortion story included here. While dramatic partner abuse or fetal abnormality stories are valid, they are often the only types of stories offered in support of abortion. The vast majority of abortions are for women who are accidentally pregnant…

This one, about a woman who went into preterm labor at 15 weeks and was denied an abortion, is incredibly powerful and well done. It’s a side of the abortion debate that not a lot of people think about

Fun fact: Abortion is 100% illegal in El Salvador. Not even for the health of the mother or the baby or in the case of rape and incest.

I mean George Clooney wants to support diversity, he does! But not at the expense of his comfort. Like I said once in a diversity scholarship application. “You should pick me because I’m just hispanicky enough to make an audience feel good about the diversity they’re seeing on stage but not so hispanicky that they…

I’ll never forget when I was dating this man three years ago and one day he proceeded to get strangely aggressive toward me and controlling. I looked him in the eye, tried my best not to look scared and proceeded as normal with cooking, and he backed off of his “weird mood.” But I felt like I escaped something. Then…

“Today, Planned Parenthood is going on the offensive against those who would shut our doors,”

Cool response.

there’s something telling about the fact that i’m actually rooting for dave franco here

I always find it entertaining how these people always characterize feminists as simultaneously being unfuckable monsters and dick-hungry sluts.

Die Hard is THE best Christmas movie. Ever.

So, here’s a crazy idea: when a kid reaches a certain amount of lunch debt, a social worker or school administrator reaches out to the kid’s family to try to find out why: is the kid going to school with lunch money every day and getting it taken on the way to school? Are they just spending it on chips in the morning?…

Did you know that I've never seen this movie and don't really plan on it either

I didn’t take a picture of my plate because I don’t do that. But I’m a college student and took a lovely picture of my leftovers.

I have seen both and been a receptionist. I did turn gay, though.

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.”

My mom & I were walking along the main street of my hometown when I was around 15, and she casually turned to me and said, apropos of nothing, “Your sister’s going to be much prettier than you when she gets older.”

My mom is an incredible woman but suffers from alcoholism. Sometimes she is a very mean drunk and during those times she has said the most cruel things about my appearance- seizing on my insecurities I had shared with her and throwing them back in my face. But the worst was when she sarcastically said my rape was hard…

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