I will watch anything with James McAvoy in it.

I’m a writing and English professor at a community college, and the misuse of freedom of speech in arguments is the bane of my existence.

Someone gave themselves the handle “Barbie Romney”? I mean, on purpose?

Yes—this is classic America.

The rhetoric being thrown at you is kinda over the top. My favorite is the claim tha sometimes misogyny is okay.

So so tired of dudes telling us that women must do something to stop rape. It’s not our job to do that, gentlemen. It’s yours.

She had two surgeries and may need a third, so actually, $126k sounds about right.

There is a category of damages called “hedonic damages” which is basically enjoyment of life stuff that you can no longer do, and therefore get compensation for. This could be that.

I pretty much hate how everyone jumps on the “Americans are so litigious!” bandwagon without the faintest notion of how insurance policies…

The women’s sizes are based on Calvn Klein and American Eagle, and the largest they go up to is 18.

It’s always the case, even though a very large percentage of women wear plus sizes. These go up to a 16 in one style and an 18 in the others? No, dammit. No.

This, 100 times, this. I am trying to get my college to change how they talk about people with disabilities, and even how they can reframe it, and it's fucking maddening.

We have a isolated satellite campus 100 miles away they sometimes get sent to. It’s like being sent to academic Siberia.

Many people getting grad degrees get a “full-ride scholarship.” It’s funding, and especially if you’re getting an MFA it’s a big component.

I think its worth pointing out that many Gen Xers died in those wars and conflicts, and that's certainly bearing some of the brunt.

Based on your descriptions of your cousin’s Crohn disease and the definition of a disability accepted by the ADA, then yes, it’s a disability.

Here’s the thing (and I posted below about this as well): even the act of this level of judging whether or not someone is fit to be a parent based on their disability status is wrong. It doesn’t matter how disabled, or what you think about their ability to parent, or even what you think about them passing along…

As a disability activist* this kind of thinking is truly troubling and opens up all kinds of people with all kinds of diagnosed to the same sort of judgment. I get that you’re angry, and I don’t think that’s wrong. But telling someone with a disability to not procreate is deeply troubling, and is something that people…

I never used one but totally understand why parents do. One of my kids is autistic, so I put him in the cart all the time (in the cart part) because running off would be bad.

He came to my MFA program a few years after I had graduated, and the tradition was that any current or former student could come out for drinks with the author after their reading. I waited in line to get my book signed, and was pretty much an incoherent jabbery fan-girl, so I basically thought, “This is my chance to…

Many of them are pretty young since my state has a dual-enrollment program (so a lot of them are high school juniors or seniors), but about 1/3 or 1/2 are early 20s.