Okay, but my youthful fashion crimes had a much lower budget. Exhibit A: an atrocity of a skirt that I made myself out of some old sea foam green curtains. Exhibit B: cast-off shirts of my dad’s with fraying sleeves and collars that I rescued from the garbage, because grunge was still cool. Etc.

Challenge yourself to remember the little Black girl who wasn’t clingy, didn’t speak in a sing-songy voice or talk about rainbows and unicorns. The one who open-faced and purposefully strode up to you. THAT’S where you will find your bias.

It’s something that affects black boys too. You have children being treated like full-grown men, and being punished like them too.

I’ve never been a full-time teacher, but I’ve worked in after-school programs and now work part-time as a swim instructor, and this really makes me reflect on how I (a white woman) interact with young Black girls. I am not currently teaching any, and the last one I clearly remember having was the sweetest…

Its that old maxim...”If you think youre tired of hearing about racism, think about how tired we are of dealing with racism”....I pray for my black daughter daily

No. Talking back suggests willful impertinence whereas getting your point across is about trying to come to a place of mutual understanding. In my experience, the latter is only viewed as the former by those with large and/or brittle egos.

You make retirement sound fabulous. 

Since I retired I never take showers any more, always bubble baths. I take a paperback book into the tub with me & read, sometimes for an hour or more. I’ve never tried a bath bomb yet. You do you.

Today is 20 years since my rape. I did not need this shit today. I was mostly fine. Then I got this notification from WaPo and collapsed into tears in my front yard. I’m just done with this planet. 

And what’s the sentence for getting someone pregnant who doesn’t want to be pregnant?

I would love for all the Bernie supporters to come and tell us again about how Hillary is just as bad as Trump. If the challenges to any of these new laws end up in the Supreme Court, given 

It usually ends with me shoving my spouse over and taking over because MY BLOOD PRESSURE. I never thought I was handy before marriage, but goddamn my wonderful engineer husband who does engineer-y things for a living, just cannot build or fix things to save his life.

When my partner and I moved into our own place for the first time, everyone said this! ‘Just wait until you have to make the Ikea furniture!’

My system is to separately assemble furniture with zero cross over with loved ones; guarantees no fights, every time! 

I believe IKEA is the Swedish word for “divorce.”

Or “tantrum.”

I’ve never assembled ikea furniture with another person for that very reason. I don’t care if the instructions say it’s a two person job. I will make that shit work by myself and preserve my interpersonal relationships, thank you very much.

Imagine the horror when they’re forced to assemble cheap furniture with only pictographic instructions and a hex key.

My grandparents are from Sweden and I am very into witchcraft and Norse pagan religions and this movie looks like a horrifying bastardization of all that I hold sacred and I AM HERE FOR IT.

I doubt that it’s a matter of coolness? The Wing clearly caters to a certain type of working woman, which is interesting considering how big they are on female empowerment and inclusivity.

Mother Mary comes to me. Shouting words of anger: Let us shame.