Attention, attention: Please print out this photo of Hidetoshi Nakata and carry it in your wallet to rub ON the face of the next person who derides East Asian male sex appeal & masculinity.

@BeckySharper: Yay! I'm an Oloshun too -Crowned to Ochun Ibu Anya for just a few short years now.

@BeckySharper: @CitoyenneduMonde: Also, I dunno if the AP caption is correct in that I've always been taught Oggun is the Orisha of war (although there are of course other warrior deities.) Chango is the owner of strategic communication as a means to avert war. What do you think?

MoGlo's dirtbags give me comedy boners.

@calvaire: @Eleanor Ramilly: Before all this stuff popped off, the tumblr creator was asking folks who fit the PDD profile if they wanted to pose as PDD in order to avoid exactly this type of situation. So she did identify this as helpful. Put on a blazer and a sardonic expression and have at it and then give her the…

@fuerzabruta: Thanks. It's nice to be able to share it here, because when I tell people in real life it sometimes weirds them out :) I've never been able to figure the ancestor part out. But the way it's been explained to me by elders is that we can definitely have strong connections with people related to us by…

@PhillyLass: LONG answer: The misas are a form of what is generally called Espiritismo in most of Latin America. Espiritismo is labeled as a kind of a folk practice that can be absorbed into a variety of different traditions. For instance, it appears in Maria Lionza in Venezuela, Curanderismo in Mexico & the…

@PhillyLass: Channeling is a good a word for it as anything else. It seems to me like that spirit was stuck re-enacting a cycle of whatever happened to her in her life, and since my depression made me more susceptible to picking up weird energy, I got pulled in. In some ways I feel like I was haunted, in the same way…

@CocoLopez-LaXicanitaXingona:

Here's mine- posted in the reply with a Trigger Warning re: depression/self-injury.

Also, Andre 3000! & Turbans have never gone out amongst the baby gangstas of Oakland, Cali.

@rosie.the.riveter: At some point they had the sexy jailbait werewolf from Twilight do a roundhouse kick to a Kanye cardboard cut-out.

Small note from someone who just got over a bonerkilling UTI episode. It's way better to use SUGAR-FREE cranberry juice, not those typical Ocean Spray jumpoffs. Otherwise, all the sugar used to sweeten up the natural bitterness of the cranberries can actually end up fueling the bacteria jamboree.

@BabyJane: No disrespect taken. Since I was writing on-and-off while I did other stuff, I didn't see any of the 20 or so new replies (including the request to stop.)

@oathkeeper: There is a extensive (and ongoing) history of Right-wing Hindu violence and rioting (often focused against Muslims) in India. In Sri Lanka, Sinhalese Buddhists have fomented and participated in anti-Tamil rioting and violence as well. We certainly do not hear about these religious/ethnic conflicts as…

@small-fox: Fa'sho! As a Yonsei with family who lived through "the camps" in WWII, I been hoping they would make a Japanese-American doll whose family is forced to relocate. But all of your suggestions sound dope.

@small-fox: The doll from the hippie era has a sidekick... A Chinese- American friend named Ivy.

I don't watch Glee... but please, PLEASE will someone tell me who the 'unrelated-but-illustrative' feller is? I think he just made my cervix flex.

@Parenthetical: @byzant: @tinyalicephoto: This survey of sexual violence in jails & prisons comes from the justice department itself.

Angela Davis (whose argument has strong legitimacy given her status as both a former prisoner & a respected academic researcher) asserts that acts which would be understood as rape/sexual assault on the outside become state-sanctioned and encouraged when the person experiencing the assault is incarcerated. So the…