ooh! Ooh! My mom’s family is from S. Florida, so “family vacation” always meant “visit Gramma and Grampa in Ft. Lauderdale. Cool. It has a beach! My grandparents live like, on the damn beach so my brother and I would jump out of the car, throw on a swim suit and run head long into the water on a semi public-ish beach…

It’s summer and my dad is presenting at a conference in Hilton Head, SC. I am dragged along, even though it is during my 17th birthday. As a 17 year old I am already pissed at my parents taking me away from my friends, instead of letting me stay at home alone(so I can throw a House Party rager!) The evening of my…

This girl sounds incredibly bad ass, and so does her mother. And fuck the fucking misogynistic media.

So I’m a white woman. I’m a lit scholar, and while I don’t focus exclusively on African-American or black lit, I do study race & ethnicity in early American fiction. I understand the complicated feelings that come with being a white person dedicated to doing this kind of work. But holy shit, I cannot fathom ever doing…

I knew a comment like this would pop up here. It’s absolutely offensive and harmful. She TRICKED people, people who trusted her, into thinking she was black when she was not and she is profiting off of that. She is making money off of telling people how she experiences being a BLACK WOMAN.

I’m just over here like “I have no idea what you do with my hands.”

If Spokane is anything like the Internet, then being an opinionated white person is the only qualification she ever needed to be an expert on race relations.

Working at a fast food joint, the manager was a really nice man who did charity work with immigrant children on the side, was endlessly cheerful, and so on. I’m working drive-through. Customer orders his food in heavily accented English, and gets abusively irate when I ask him (politely) to repeat his order. I’m…

You’re missing the greatest shot of the match:

Yeah, the piece (+the fact they ran it at all) blew my mind this AM.

School district administrators are usually guided by a school district attorney, whose only interest is not doing anything that could the school district fined or sued. The people responsible for the school public information and media relations get pushed to the side pretty much instantaneously except to write and…

Help by convincing some doctors that a 26 yr old (gadget-sibling) knows when a breast lump feels different than previous cysts, and should be fucking biopsied soon despite her age. Because it was cancer.

Dude’s got so many projection issues he should work at a theater!

like colin, i have been broken. why arent there more stars?

Once upon a time, I worked in a 3-story riverfront restaurant. The lounge/one of the dining rooms was at the bottom. The line and the service bar were on the middle floor and the private dining room was on the floor above that. It was a bitch to work there, to say the least.

When I was about 13, I pretended to be a soon to be mother on a baby name message board. I really liked baby names at the time (girl names only, der), carefully maintaining lists for all my future children. This was back around 2001 so it was a very primitive message boards, but I was extremely active, becoming a top…

“Equity” Residential.

Starring Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen!

No family is safe

He wasn't arrested. He was questioned. In handcuffs. With his shirt pulled over his head. After his home was surrounded by snipers. And multiple cops in armor and camoflage. And had to negotiate an escort out of his house over the phone with a third party. For 5 hours.