I went to a super restrictive religious elementary school, which I guess made us bored and weird in return. Anyway, it was probably 3rd or 4th grade, definitely old enough to know better, and I remember walking around the baseball diamond with my friends during recess chanting, “God made dirt so dirt don’t hurt.” We…

My whole family is like this and my husband’s family is not. When our previous dog was diagnosed with not one but two types of cancer the vetinerary surgeon said, “We think we caught this early enough that it’s two different tumors but I don’t think we need to consider a course of chemo at this point. Just surgery to…

Who wants to fuck someone with egg salad breath?!?

I’m so excited to finally not miss SNS! I’ve been collaborating with a local yarn dyer to turn some of my tattoo designs into embroidery kits, and I am super excited about it! This will be the first one. The design just needs some simplifying to fit into a 5" hoop.

I am 100% rooting for this MIT prof.....aside from Brad Pitt maybe not being a great partner, but in theory, work with me. Amal picking up a trophy husband gives me life and I love the vicarious gender balancing of having visible, famous couples where the woman is primarily known as an intellectual powerhouse and the…

I’m pretty sure NYC is Lenni Lenape territory. San Francisco is stolen/occupied Ohlone lands. Chicago is the homelands to Algonquian tribes. Atlanta is Creek and Muskogee lands. The metro Phoenix area, which includes Scottsdale, another culture vulture mecca, and Tucson are occupied O’odham lands. The name of Tucson…

When the author scuttles back to Brooklyn, is she aware that the land there is equally sacred, and that she’s using it without awareness of those who lived there before European contact? There isn’t any place in the Americas where this isn’t true, whether or not there are walking, talking reminders of that fact.

Final hummingbaby update: I took this pic in the morning and when I got home that night they were gone. I’m child-free, so this is the first time I’ve felt the bittersweet pang of an empty nest. But I once read that in some Native American traditions the hummingbird is said to come as a reminder of the joy in life.…

last week she went into my bedroom and stole alcohol I had hidden there

One of mine from a while ago:

So, I did the super cliche thing on the Day of Visibility and came out as trans today to my friends and family who did not already know (all but about 6 people). It honestly went great. Tons of support, including from some family members I had feared might not be on board, no warnings that my soul would be condemned…

I am officially a dog mom! I am really happy. But man— this week has been a challenge! She is now 10 weeks old. I got her last Friday, I noticed something seemed wrong, and I took her to the vet on Wednesday. She has a mild case of kennel cough, an ear infection, and a tummy parasite :( She acts normal, is eating and…

Love Your Kitties thread:

Yep. If a dude had “joked” about wanting to lynch black people for voting, he would rightly get hounded out of being paid to have an opinion. Same shit goes for this.

Fuck this racist, misogynistic dude. You don’t get to call for the murder of women because they exercise their legal choice of abortion just to be edgy. Stating your opinions has consequences, the most important of which for a writer should be denial of a platform. Shame on the Atlantic...

How many red lines has he crossed already? Honestly he can clearly do whatever the hell he wants to, and unless Republicans pass legislation protecting Mueller and making him fully independent, we’re always going to have this hanging over our heads. They managed to kill the Congressional investigation, it’s just a…

Just now, staring at something only she can see which obviously means ghosts

Super glad these kids were out there fighting and demonstrating and were given a chance to actually speak for themselves. So often kids get relegated to the optics of a movement or just are there as part of the larger struggle, that to see these brave kids out chanting, speaking, and leading is truly inspiring. I hope…

America is forever tainted, as in America is the worlds taint, forever. The presidency of Donald Trump has infected us, we will never recover and, quite frankly, we don’t deserve to recover. Allowing this piece of shit to be president means that we deserve every bad thing that will ever happen to us. Tearing the…

Trudeau obviously knew he was full of shit; in fact, most Canadians know he’s full of shit on this - Canadian media have been covering it ever since 45* started spouting off about the imaginary trade deficit during the campaign. No biggie, just the idiot being the idiot.