they hired a science writer, i write about science, this is science

Perhaps because they are vastly overrepresented in national systemic discrimination as well? I encourage you to look up stats on murder, rape, assault, suicide, health care failures, etc. as they apply to trans people. Hell, even the poverty rate among the trans population is dramatically higher than the national…

I nearly spit out my coffee at that image.

Which is worse, that they all did that automatically for a photo, or if they decided together to do it for the photo? I can’t decide.

Only one comment: I do not understand the attraction of nails of that length.

What IS that?

**Catalina update**

It makes me want to cry that our female candidate knew she had to practice not being physically intimidated by her opposition.

I’m living on mostly rice, these days, but still subscribe to the New Yorker.

I can’t look at Susan Sarandon without thinking “ugh” anymore.

This is giving me ALL THE FEELS.

I am three years older than him, and I still get carded at bars. Suck it, Alex Jones!

Atlee Bay sounds like it should be the name of a Midwest airport store that sells luggage and pashminas.

Friendly English Lit reminder: the point of this quote is not that Juliet is wondering where Romeo is. Rather, the “wherefore art thou” is meant as “WHY are you Romeo Montague,” as in, “I really wish you were from literally any other family.”

“I kind of pooh-poohed the experience stuff when I first got here,” explained one White House official, “But this shit is hard.”

The screenplay is credited to three guys. I suppose hiring a black female writer able to refract the Lacks’ family experience through a more sensitive lens was out of their budget?

Holy SHIT that one makes all my grammatical nerve-endings twitch. Why not just say “request”? “Request” is actually a noun. What’s wrong with “request”? Too many syllables? Too many hard-to-type letters, like Q? Yarrrrgh, the hipness, it burns.

She was 6 months old at the time. She’s a tiny person, not a toy! It makes my blood boil.