I don’t know about the father, other than he’s lost a child to CPS before and has a long criminal and drug history. He also didn’t want her when she was first removed from her mother, he didn’t even try to claim her until 2 years after she’d been removed. What I do know is that 1.5% NA, not born on a reserve, not…

True, but kids don’t get removed from a home due to unpaid parking tickets.

bite your tongue, Helen Mirren is going to be alive and look like that forever.

Yeah, I think a better word would have been “encourage” or “perpetuate.”

MARY

Bridget was my favorite, too. But I also liked Holly.

Tyga and his landlord are not in a great place right now.

Yeah, she seemed like the one who was the closest to knowing what she was getting out of the arrangement, liking the results, and not hurting anyone else in the process. I remember her being maybe a little too into her pets, but that’s not a huge fault.

The bustle was considered to be a huge leap forward for women’s fashion in its time, compared to the earlier hoopskirt. Both of these devices gave a pleasing fullness to the hips and skirts which made the corseted waist seem even tinier. However, the hoopskirt was dangerous in a time when most houses were heated with…

I thought this was why so many Victorian chairs had open backs, so you could scoot your bustle through when you sat?

Wow. Sounds like every restaurant I ever worked in (usually as the lone female chef).

It’s not just hair for black women and girls who have lost jobs, been kicked out of school, not hired or promoted, considered less-than in a romantic context, and prejudged as “ghetto” for wearing a style that is less damaging to her hair. I look forward to that changing someday, but it has yet to arrive. Until then,…

Totally. I’m fairly confident that if you went to Labrie before his trial and asked him if he thought rape was wrong, he would have said it was. I’m also fairly confident that Labrie had no idea that his actions could be considered rape and that he was shocked and bewildered by the fact that he was on trial. He…

Weird, right? It’s like there’s something about him and his circumstances that makes the justice system go easier on him than other convicted criminals.

One of my relatives had one of those. But the parents wanted to be surprised by the gender too, so they have the doctor write the baby’s gender on a piece of paper and stick it in a sealed envelope. They give the sealed envelope to a bakery, pre-order a cake for the party, tell the bakery to open the envelope and use…

Just this week I noticed that signs appeared at the school where I work which read “This Is A Nut Free School.” The signs were the total of our school’s attempt to educate the staff on this, as far as I know. They tend to forget special educators are here, so maybe they gave information to the rest of the staff. I…

“Boy will be boys” or in this case “grown ass men will be grown ass men commenting on a child’s body”

That karate anecdote really hit home for me. Karate was my life from ages 10-16, when I finally got my black belt. However, once thrown into class with the other black belts, most of whom were men in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, I quit within six months. Why? Because they made inappropriate and sexist remarks about my…

And as a mixed raced child who had a white mother who took every single racial and sexist battle - and won them, I’ll say: the exhaustion is worth it.

This is something I grapple with all the time. I want it be known I’m not okay with this shit but I don’t want my feelings to end up alienating my daughters because their friend’s parents don’t want to deal with me. My girls are almost four and two so I know it’s coming. The only thing I can think of to solve it is to…