One of my favorite quotes is from her: “People may say I can’t sing. But no one can ever say that I didn’t sing.”

I don't think that's his real account but this is still awesome.

My boyfriend comes from an evangelical family and one thing I’ve noticed is that his personal boundaries are seen as just obstacles for them to overcome in the name of bringing him back to the Lord. Any rule about not discussing religion or politics is thrown out the window at the first opportunity because preventing…

Yeah, we’ve never been cool with it.

Is the proper response to this just ignoring them? Ignoring people is a great way to tell someone they don't matter without having to do anything.

Bernie Sanders is like the Dave Matthews Band of politics; he’s not bad alone but his fans make you want to hate him.

I also have an uncle named Steve, but he’s actually pretty cool.

I would love to see a movie about the actors cast as slaves in a typical white savior movie though, maybe as a sort of response to Birdman, because nothing seems more absurd than having your own history plundered by your oppressors while they retell the story of your oppression for you but somehow it’s a white guy who…

I don’t give a shit about your betterment when someone could kill me. Did this woman do anything to you besides hurt your feelings? Has any woman do anything to you besides hurt your feelings? I don’t get why you, and so many others are so dense about this. Women get killed and assaulted all the time by men, and often…

Your response is liberating to anyone who has stopped herself from participating in something for fear of mass ridicule. What do you do when it feels like the whole world is calling you fat? You fucking roll with it, write an awesome essay, and then find a whole world of supporters on the Internet.

No, if there was a threat and it was on the news and there were news trucks and reporters and we all had to go home from school and there was all of this excitement, I would be piiiiiissssssssssssed if my teacher, plus fucking Malala, made me miss out on all that, plus the bare possibility that I would run into the…

The NFL is actually a non-profit, believe it or not.

Aw man I could tell you this was true because I was that person in a miserably dysfunctional relationship posting pictures of the dumb meal my dumb boyfriend made with far too much of our grocery budget because he fancied himself the new Anthony Bourdain with the hashtag #bestboyfriendever while I silently seethed…

A DV victim not showing up for court and wanting to drop charges is the norm, which is why many prosecutor’s offices have special divisions just to deal with the particular challenges that come with these kinds of cases. DV victims are rarely afforded the same kinda of protections afforded to other kinds of witnesses…

I try to make sure I tell the person that whatever they’re feeling is ok and valid, and that it’s ok to feel that way for however long they need. I feel like a lot of the comman adages said to grieving people are meant to mitigate that grief, and are said with good intentions, but mitigating the grief is something an…

I think it’s pretty important to point out that the announcers had just asked fans to take selfies and tag them with some hashtag, so this falls under the category of “women criticized by men for doing the thing those men asked them to do.”

Is there a kickstarter yet to pay for him to go to a private high school that encourages intellectual curiosity?

I get what your saying, but these kinds of posts do help by spurring donor money to groups that work on these issues, including the organization I work for. I would rather ask “what harm is done through empathy tourism?” rather than “what good?” because in these situations, I would rather have the extra million…

And the children that result from women having sex are “consequences,” not autonomous human beings who deserve to be welcomed to this world by someone who is prepared to welcome them.

Ok here’s an idea that will never happen but I can dream: instead of candidates and donors spending billions (billions!) on these insane campaigns, we send all the presidential hopefuls to “president school” where they have to take classes, together, on crucial topics like world history and politics, how the military…