Seriously. I did quite well my first year and worked as a research assistant, because the professor’s work was interesting AND it paid, unlike anything else on offer for 1L summer. 

They are DESIGNED for it!

Right!? I’m dating another woman anyway, so it’s not loaded in the same way, but...my name is on my degrees, my publications, it’s the name I was called in school since I was small, it’s the name I share with my siblings. It’s the name that, knock on wood, will be on the cover of the book I’m writing and more after…

I’ve been terrified of that for years. I don’t even live on the West Coast, but I will refuse to stay in the inundation zone. Except this year I got this amazing writing workshop...the ocean in Newport, Oregon. I was like superimposing Google Maps with the street names onto the state tsunami map to figure out my…

The familiar scenes are so much scarier. Seeing ICE involved (of course, god...I mean there are people to whom the separation from their families is already happening, right now).

I find the flashbacks almost scarier because they’re so close to reality.

It should be. With straight couples, the husband is assumed to be the father and put on the birth certificate even if they used a donor. In this case both parents were put on the children’s birth certificates, as we fought for the right to have happen,but it’s nonsensical that that wouldn’t also bestow citizenship. If…

They noted an uptick in discomfort with same-sex couples holding hands, though, which pertains to sexual orientation rather than gender, so I’m not sure that’s true.

These idiots who somehow think the Democratic party would survive without prochoice women are blowing my damn mind. For all its problems, the women’s march was what, hundreds of thousands? Millions? of women marching in the streets, on this issue. Women made 86% of calls to Congress! How many women are running for…

Look at how many Democratic pro-choice women are running for office. 86% of calls to Congress post-Trump came from women and the majority of those were very likely pro-choice Dems. Have you noticed when male Democrats endorse an anti-choice candidate, there’s an immediate and enormous uproar? We goddamn would start a…

I don’t think so, I will probably not be on the East Coast for that...I am going to try to visit the college for Vespers, though!

If I see her again I will! I think she was telling this story in one of the alum Facebook groups, so if I see her there I will let her know! I’m glad you are okay!

My girlfriend’s roommate once had a woman ask her this. AND GAVE HER A RIDE. And told her her full name. Normally my girlfriend makes fun of me, the midwesterner, for not being paranoid enough, but we were both horrified. That could have gone so wrong.

Ooof, that’s terrifying! I think we must have gone to the same college, because I’ve also heard that from an alumna who went through that same horrifying experience. At that point I lived in a building where the front door was frequently unlocked (it was a safe neighborhood and not in a city, but always made me…

I dunno. I was a pretty hardcore atheist for awhile after coming out of an intense Christian background, but in the past few years I’ve mellowed. I can’t really fully believe in most things without evidence, but I’m more comfortable with some ambiguity than I have been, and I feel happier that way. Also, there…

Wait seriously? That’s kind of amazing, I wonder who was like “hey, you know what we should use in this song? I think this’ll really make the piece, guys.” Wow.

Someone on Twitter pointed out that the refrain sounds like “Too Sexy for My Shirt” and now I can’t unhear it.

Opened a request for donations from the DNC right after reading this news this morning. Wrote over their request with an assertion that they will get nothing from me until they come out loud and clear with a statement that women’s rights are not optional. Sending that to them and a bigger donation to Planned…

Oh, totally. As a kid that seemed totally logical and like something I wanted too— and there were plenty of things I didn’t tell adults about because I assumed adults wouldn’t understand/couldn’t help. Just going back and reading it at an age where my perspective is closer to, say, Lupin’s than to Harry’s and…

...I might steal naming my dog Orion.