By coincidence, my annual was about a week after the election. I had been thinking about an IUD for years but just never got around to scheduling an appointment...you can best believe I went ahead and scheduled one that day. My gynecologist was fantastic and when I brought it up she asked whether it had anything to do…

I considered an IUD but instead I’m going to twist What’s-His-Name’s arm and DEMAND that he get a vasectomy. I’ve been kind of half-assedly suggesting it for the past few years but now I’m determined that HE will be in charge of the non-baby-having part of the equation. I’ve been avoiding it for 26 years now except…

Yup, the classism that the racism covered over rears its ugly head.

My grandma was an asshole and tried to convince my mom to abort me (she was married and happy at the time, loved being a SAHM and my dad was very successful). I thought about this for about two surreal seconds before I came to the conclusion that I don’t care. If I didn’t exist I would make no difference to me because …

If you’re a big enough asshole to point at yourself and say “good things come from rape” you are actually proof that nothing good comes from rape.

The narrative of “Abortion is bad, because my mom could have had an abortion but she didn’t and so I exist!” is terrible enough without being like “See, good things can come out of rape!” while pointing at your own self.

Latinx?? Come on, it’s much better latin@s or latinos, it sounds ridiculous to say latinx.

Latinx sounds like a Pokémon. Always has, still does, always will.

I was hoping you were going to brainstorm about people like my ex, a Latino who loves Trump. Let’s call him Juan. He doesn’t describe himself as white, but when he looks in the mirror, he sees a white guy, if you know what I mean. Loves him some Trump. Having Trump get the nomination sort of forced him to cut the…

For indigenous people from Central and South America (and Mexico!) identifying with their colonizers (Spain) can be an issue. Because there are so many permutations, I try and ask how people self-identify, or try and avoid generalities in re: groups of people. That said, I support your garlic initiative and would like…

I am ALL for individual ethnic/nationality groups. I think that’s how most of us identify anyway. It’s the gringos that slapped a monolithic label on us 40-50+ years ago.

Ugh, I hate the term “Latinx”. It makes me think of a Roman soldier in Spanx. Can’t we go for “Hispanic?” Or better yet, individual ethnic groups. Because as a Puerto Rican, tacos aren’t part of my culture. Oh, they are still delicious. But me ordering them is no different from any other person out there ordering…

Soy latina carajo!

I understand the need for some people to have a label like latinx.

I agree with you wholeheartedly Alex.

I do have one concern. Latino/Latina media is generally white media anyway isn’t it?

Afro-Latinos are generally not represented physically or socially in Latino media. The media reflects the same racial hierachy that extists in ALL Latin American Societies. Look at this:

I get that it’s hard to read NYT and WaPo and Huffington Post but seriously people, are we ready to give up on actual news just because it’s not as easy to read as a comic book or a cartoon on TV? It’s like nobody can read anymore so you have people just giving up on reading newspapers and just reading memes and…

Who started this ridiculous trend of spelling Latino with an X? Please stop doing this guys.

Why does anybody give this asshole any air time? The only thing I want to hear is Manson died in prison. The end. Hell, I don’t even want to get that update. Let him rot in obscurity.

Manson, who was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Sharon Tate and six others in August of 1969, has not exactly served his time quietly.

No, and giving him more needless publicity, feeding into his infamy, cultural influence, and cravings for attention with another pointless article, isn’t helping to shut…

I wish Jez had used this space for something a bit more up-beat and, well, interesting. Also, despite the fact that this is a man who did horrible things, I’m not outraged about this situation. It seems simply to have been posted so that we could all throw insults and clever non sequiturs at him.