Well, and the modern practice is often so centered on reckoning with that misogyny and fucking doing better than past practitioners. Like, incidents like these feel worse because it’s a knowing betrayal. There’s so much misogyny everywhere, in every religious tradition, in all of their texts, and we’re supposed to DO…

Finding out that Levine is also accused of physical misconduct is double-disgusting/the worst/an enormous betrayal of what he was instructing others to do in their own lives, but it doesn’t take that level to be “sexual misconduct” for many Buddhists. Sexual misconduct *also* includes way more nuanced actions: having…

Came for the badassery, stayed for that baby’s *killer* side-eye! Baby Bella (top, third from left), I feel so *seen*!

One time, I bumped into this woman at a bar, and I spilled her drink. I apologized and we laughed and I bought her another and she turned out to be super cool. I got a cab home later. #womenrecallbarfights

thank you thank you thank you for this piece. that eulogy had me fuming, and i can’t imagine how sociologist michael eric dyson restrained himself from coming up there with the receipts in the form of REAMS of research that all that shit he said was wrong.

bwahaha, for just a moment i thought you were suggesting that the name “homegirl” was super italian.

*thank you* for adding #9. i was astounded at his jasperness. DUDE. i was wondering how michael eric dyson was gonna even start with the sociological research on how every goddamn jasper thing that came outta that jasper mouth was not only PEAK JASPER but dead-ass wrong.

My name was removed from the cover of a book I edited (and which had already been designed with my name on it), though the two credited editors who remained advocated for my name to be included. I was, similarly, told that paid contractors are not the same thing as series editors (who are also, umm, paid). I’m super…

Relevant: the restaurant’s awning looks like a dick. Appropriate!

Just adding that Abby Wambach’s name is misspelled. Thanks!

Something I wrote right after learning that Justine had been killed:

missing my friend, a year after her death. that so many other communities mourn this way so much more regularly really weighs on me—black and brown men and people experiencing mental illness are far more frequent victims of police killings and i’m so glad their stories are being held up to the light, too.

“Everyone you’ve ever heard of is a sex monster.”

Alice! Please make more of these soothing, hilarious videos for the anxious crowd — I could watch this all damn day, giggling and feeling better with each watch. Petting the salt at the end: pure comedy gold.

Happy to see that an update shows that the school district is now supporting all students’ right to dress as they’d like — good work, students, in organizing and reminding the district of their values (trying to be charitable on that one...)

There’s a great, accessible piece by academic Jennifer Randles on “diaper need,” a truly, absolutely shitty situation: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1536504217742395

Just that header pic of Westwick made me think “Guilty! Next!” Whoops.

WHOOPS. wrong org — this is the California Peace Officers’ Association (CPOA), not the Correctional union (CCPOA). Still though, the politics of it all are super interesting. I’d delete my first comment, but can’t figure out how to do that. Ungh.

I worked on a book about the CCPOA - The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers’ Union in California by Joshua Page - and Sessions is preaching to the choir there. They are an incredibly powerful political force in CA, the group behind a number of “innovations” like Three Strikes laws that were,…

right? and landry/lance/jesse plemmons is in there, and winston from new girl ruined me with the non-spoilery line, “glass tables are acting weird today.”