Bernie is that guy you went to college with who’s been coasting on his two Women’s Studies and Survey of African Literature electives for the past twenty years.

I have many feels about white girls in Frida costumes. But then again, Frida herself was 3/4 white European and both economically and socially privileged. Only her maternal grandfather was Oaxaqueno, so some people in the indigenous Oaxaqueno communities —still most of poorest and discriminated against communities in…

“Drew man, you shouldn’t call things gay,” and I remember, again, only caring about my own definition of the word. “But to me, it just means lame!”

I hope it works for you! IME pressing cabbage does more harm than good in this case because the vinegar is going to break down the cell structure of the cabbage anyway, so you really don’t want to help it along. Just like with salad greens, a bruised leaf is a soggy leaf. Good luck!

Do you salt your cabbage beforehand? Because I’m willing to bet your pupuseria does. Make sure your cabbage is sliced into respectably sturdy ribbons instead of delicate whisper thin threads and then toss it with maybe a teaspoon per medium head of cabbage? I’m in Mexico and our cabbage tends to be smaller than what I…

I can troubleshoot your curtido if you’d like. My Salvi MIL says mine is better than hers.

There it is. Sure, as a fat person I might’ve escaped ~some~ unwanted sexual attention from a very particular subset of creep, but if there was a No Harassment No Assault gift voucher I was supposed to receive as a member of the Fatties Local 414’m gonna need to speak to my union rep right the fuck now.

I don’t know, I’ve said this somewhere before but a certain type of white woman really makes a huge show of how much they love Lupita and it gives me the megacreeps. Like the Acceptable Non-White Girlcrush* starter pack only came with Beyonce and Malala** and they’re suuuuper stoked about adding a dark-skinned girl.

*b…

LW2: But I have a boner

This exactly. Any time I’ve been thinking about sleeping with someone else I’ve told my partner. This does a couple of things: one, it keeps me honest. It’s no great sin to have outside desires and treating it like some enormous shame sets people up for failure because a cycle of repressed desire + secret shame is how…

This is one of the cases where for me it’s not the crime: It’s the cover up. I don’t love the idea of infidelity, but if you got your dick sucked while you were on a business trip, I better find out about it from you, not get some random Sunday afternoon DM from that person’s ex-boyfriend two months after it happened.

A friend’s grandchild has just been cast as a Mousketeer in the new Mickey Mouse Club reboot and they’re over the moon. I’m super happy for them and the kid’s opportunity too but I’m also like

Same here. The tree remembers what the axe forgets.

I’m there with you. I don’t WANT to be cheated on and I don’t cheat (because it’s not worth the damage, not because there’s a minute of my life that goes by where I don’t want to ride Terry Crews like a fairground pony) but even perfect relationships are made of imperfect people, so not all infidelity is an automatic…

But don’t you know that difficult women, messy women, and women who do things of which at least one white man somewhere in the universe disapproves become Officially Unassaultable? It’s all there written down in the Can’t Rape a Ho Act of 1627.

Latin America, too. The hot item of the moment is Dove Clear Tone (Nivea has one too, but I can’t remember the name) which is a deodorant that’s supposed to lighten your underarms. I have slightly mixed feelings about this because I know people who are prone to hyperpigmentation and get dark spots from razor…

Wait, I thought Ryan Gosling invented jazz.

It’s been a minute since I read it, but yes, you pretty much nailed it, which is why I feel more sad than frustrated when people trot out the Cherokee Princess trope. And of course the same thing was used by white people to cover for their “white” ancestors who were mixed and passing.

Just to shed a little light on the Salvi thing for US readers who might not know, there was a distinct ethnocidal element to their civil war. It began with the 1932 Peasant Massacre where the military slaughtered up to 40,000 civilians —mostly the indigenous Pipil— in three days, with order to kill any Pipil they saw…

And here in Mexico, it tends to be if you weren’t born here/have never lived here, you’re not Mexican. Tejano/Xicano/Latino sure, but not Mexican.