The mall near where I grew up has gone through multiple renovations and expansions since the mid-90's & now markets itself as the upscale, classy shopping experience in the wider metro area. <eye roll> (It had one main corridor when I was a wee lass: two anchor stores, an arcade, a Woolworth's with an in-store diner,…

#91 up there at the top of the page? Tony Washington? He's a former student! :) He was a great kid and a really hard worker. And last night, I didn't merely get to see him sack Jameis Winston but I also got to see him score a touchdown off Winston's backwardly-thrown-while-oh-shit-falling fumble. It was awesome.

Exactly. I don't deny that her parents are in pain and grieving. But any parent who claims to love their child and yet treats them so contemptuously has a seriously underdeveloped and/or repressed capacity for experiencing full love. That their version of Christianity professes this same warped "love" is not a…

My main group of friends from college did a yearly NYE get together for many years post-college. We rotated who hosted, but because I was the only out-of-stater, I never got to host. :( Which also meant I traveled the furthest to attend every year. One year, I felt really shitty in the days leading up to the 31st, and…

1. I think the wig could've been cool with a different jacket. I wonder if she was going for like an inverse Joan Jett w/that combo.

Trudy Styler is everything. She's just joined Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton, and others I can't remember on my classy lady role models list, 50+ category. She & Sting always seem so real and sincere. It's probs all the tantric sex they have (wasn't that a big story in the 90s at some point?).

So relieved to hear Thompson's expected to survive. I'm pretty peeved about the way Brinsley's shootings have been spun by the NYPD. I'm super annoyed with the bullshit that prominent people & mainstream media have been spewing in an attempt to link Brinsley's acts to protests and demonstrations calling for reform,…

Queer here. I was raised Catholic but never really felt any spiritual pull toward either God or religion. While I wouldn't quite say that I'm an athiest, I definitely don't believe in the monotheistic Christian God so prominent in Western religions. And I also tend to think organized religions, especially those pesky…

love. her. love. her. love her. i fucking love heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!

The race and class divisions that have plagued U.S. feminisms for centuries persist in the present. As a white feminist pursuing a career in academia, I am ALL about rejecting these divisions, trying to get students to recognize their own privileges, and challenging people's assumptions. Feminism has a lot of…

Weingarten's & AFT-national's support was integral to ending my union's strike last week (Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation 3544). So many of us were out on picket lines talking to each other and to undergraduates about how movements for racial justice, gender equity, and fair & equitable working conditions (and…

No, it's that the end goal is profit. So when I'm genuinely moved but then necessarily reminded that it's in the service of selling me something, it cheapens the whole experience. Which doesn't mean the ad didn't work, or that the people who invested time and energy into creating it "don't count." I used to work in…

Beverly Johnson is awesome. So is Janice Dickinson (which I haven't said since her show Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency). So are all the other women who have come forward and all the others who haven't. We believe you.

I agree! Such an insightful point; I'm really glad she went ahead and said it. The reality is there's always been respectability-touting black folks in the U.S., and usually they have more white friends, social influence, money, etc. Similarly, there's always been misogyny in anti-racist movements. There's a…

At Oregon, the recent campus climate study indicated risk of being victim or perpetrator of sexual violence significantly increases if a person is Greek-associated. Fraternity brothers are 3x more likely to commit sexual violence than other young men on campus. And both women and men involved in Greek Life report…

What a clueless tweet. Of course you don't blame the victim, Ramapo College. You do worse. You erase the victim by sending the message that the onus is on them to prevent their own victimization.

Right there with you. Right. There. With. You.

I've lost hours of my life to KClark covers on youtube. My love for her will endure all things. I love this one of Florence + the Machine's "Heavy in Your Arms"

Do we have the same dog? Are you me? :) I have friends who love ours "because he's just like a cat!"

Chiming in to second the Dasiquin. We've had our little guy on them since we adopted him last winter, and his little knees are so much better! Since he's small & only needs half of one each day, the $60 bag lasts like 4-5 months. Bonus: he loves his nightly treat and waits eagerly by the counter when we come in from…