I know it’s with good intentions, but one of the things that you talk about when training to handle people disclosing assaults to you is that the best thing is to not talk the person’s power away. Meaning, letting them make their own choices, despite how you want them to handle it. Encouraging someone to talk to an…

you’ve all probs heard this but it opened my eyes: “men fear women will laugh at them - women fear that men will kill them” Margaret Atwood

Yea, I find it so interesting that these commenters have so much to say about how “bougie” this strike is, but forget that they are commenting on a page about female educators striking. Last time I checked teachers are underpaid and overworked, so you know super fucking bougie. I understand that for the most part…

Classic narcissistic abuse tactic: After screaming like a toddler, dangling out a thing or two that are almost like the thing you wanted/asked for/deserve as a way to gaslight you about the shit fest that just happened and try to manipulate you into further consessions. His offering a qualified candidate and promising…

Dick Cheney and the Koch Brothers oppose the Muslim ban. DICK CHENEY and the KOCH BROTHERS think something is reprehensible. I would think that would be enough to make anyone question their life choices.

People talk about “College” from the Sopranos or “Ozymandius” from Breaking Bad as the best television episodes of all time.

Scared by crowds and strangers introvert here agreeing with you. It was so cathartic and unifying to me to hear the group scream well up and explode here in Chicago. I marched with a group that was warm, funny, welcoming and very diverse.

I think it’s interesting to watch a metaphorical infant taking its first steps, and then trash said infant for not being able to run a 40-yard-dash in record time. That, to me, is what this article does.

For many it is and was the first step. I see a lot of people shitting on those new to activism. Frankly you can choose to be pissed that these people didn’t have your back before, or choose to use this opportunity to turn these people. You had a bunch of people try activism for the first time and it felt good. They’re…

Likewise: I was at the march in DC, and I loved the diversity of purpose: women’s rights, Black Lives Matter, pro-disability, Support Your Local Sex Worker, trans visibility and rights, pro-immigrant. I got the chance to talk with the people carrying those signs, and now I know more about what these movements (not all…

I work for an advocacy organization. We all went to the march, with our friends and our families.

What’s with these purity tests that people on the left require of one another?

What say you, cheerleaders?

Hillary Clinton was raked over the coals for not wanting to bake cookies and be a GOP defined, nice, white First Lady who kept her mouth shut. Donna Shalala, the Secretary of Health and Human Services at the time & literally dozens of public health organizations were involved in defining the needs of the populace and…

Let me correct the headline.

The LGBT rights page, climate change page, and all mention of climate change has been purged from whitehouse.gov. This may be yet another casualty.

Who’s actually in charge of the national guard there? Dumpster fired the commander.

Yeah, this definitely won’t provide a pretext for more authoritarianism from him or push centrists towards his side.

Don’t worry guys. It’s going to be ok. They won’t start taking away your rights till after the weekend. Trump doesn’t work weekends.

Really sticking it to the man by destroying city owned trash cans.