I feel no less judged when someone says "you look sexy" than when someone calls me "fat whore," but I know which one makes me feel immediate danger more readily.

I'm Latina. In NYC I get catcalled A LOT. And it's mostly by fellow Latinos. They can be so gross. I don't know if Latinos catcall more women in general, or just fellow Latinas, but I found it disappointing when I moved to NYC. They're so shameless and disgusting. I felt kinda betrayed because back home they know they…

"As a woman of size I get some weird, fucked up harassment that is threatening and hostile in a way that wasn't portrayed in the video either. "

I totally get what you mean. As woman of color the harassment is bad.... the racist harassment is worse... so much so that I hardly notice the regular harassment as harassment…

You mentioned this in passing so I just want to pull it back out of the ether:

Women of color are vulnerable. Women of SIZE are also vulnerable (regardless of color, but especially if they are both of color AND size).

All the discussions sparked around this issue seem to focus entirely on the fact that women are…

I've always found that I'm much more likely to be harassed by men of color when I'm walking down the street — or sometimes, when I'm really lucky, the security guards at work, who carry guns, tell me I should smile. Harassment from white men is more likely to come from Tinder or OkCupid. Or at a bar with a bunch of…

Alternative name: The November 1st Martini

Given that Victoria's Secret doesn't carry bras in my size, I'm not wild about A Body for Every Body, either.

this is literally what your insides look like.

We're mostly on the same page, except I don't think it's in any way new that people like Taylor Swift are moving in. NYC has always been right next to LA when it comes to vapid celebrities living here, it's odd to me that Taylor Swift is attracting so much attention for it (and people were going on about it before the…

because they didn't actually have a real fucking person they wanted to actually pay tribute to.

La Petite Mort(e) is French for orgasm, i.e. 'a little death'. Tee hee, they named a store Orgasm, but real secret like.

Mark, I can't believe you forgot William Petersen's penis in To Live and Die in LA. Sorry I can't find a better picture.

I find it interesting that you complain about people bashing Taylor and then go on to bash Jay-Z. (and as someone who lives in Brooklyn and has paid a lot of attention to the Barclay Center project I call complete and utter bs on the gentrification angle. You wanna spout off about eminent domain go right ahead)

It's not that they're wishing her dead. They're just pointing out that New York is a dying city, slowly smothering it's vivacious, chromatic mixing pot under the cinereal tones of gentrified mediocrity. By becoming the Global Welcome Ambassador for Tourism Tay has become the Queen of the Damned to this cultural…

Here's a film I made about Chico, with his own thoughts on the LES:

lol, I knew it was an LES Chico painting as soon as I saw it. He's paintings are cute as hell in a charming 3rd grade sort of way.... I agree that he's not a particularly good artist. In fact, I don't think anyone things he's a good artist. But he's a local guy who has been doing these for quite a while.

Eh... it's art. Street muralists usually create pieces that are meant to spark a conversation.

But a lot of that ARE cultural NYC norms. Or at least they used to be before suburbanites came in droves whilst dragging in their homogenized cultures with them.

Thanks for posting these! I thought the Taylor one in the header was kind of meh and I wouldn't have looked further. They're lovely.

Just so we're all in the know, la petite mort means orgasm.