I fucking love the idea of using Socratic Questioning in the style of cognitive-behavior therapy in sexting. I’m just gonna ask you questions until you reach the conclusion I’d like you to reach; it’s much more salient if you’re able to get there on your own.

next-level mansplaining, right here

Texas...why do you have to make it so easy to hate you? Between this & that disgusting prison story earlier you’re reeeeeeeaaaaallllllyyyyy pushing it. For a people who bash sharia law & restrictive Islamic cultures you sure seem to think the same. I have a feeling you think you’re some kind of moral beacon. A bastion…

How did you handle her comments and shit? I’d want to stare her right in the eyes as I ate a burrito.

SCREAMING INCOHERENTLY AT YOUR QUEENLINESS

Can we be best friends? You sound awesome.

I had a coworker at my last job who was routinely furious that, even though I was fat and she wasn’t, I still allowed myself to enjoy food while she subsisted in Lean Cuisine and fat-free yogurt. It made her SO angry, and she just couldn’t shut up about it—she’d hover around my cubicle at lunch time and make comments…

Let me tell you about what life is like as a fat sexworker. My job involves sharing photos of myself as a strong, sexy, sexual woman, in varying degrees of undress. It involves me setting a figure - a not inexpensive one, either - on what I feel access to my body is worth.

This, for a myriad of reasons, makes some men…

The way she worded that statement was strange. I don’t know what “personhood” means here to her. But she is absolutely right that Europeans’ enslavement of Africans was exceptional. Meaning, it was worse than any other form of slavery that we know about. We need to stop pretending that this was just the European…

White people are so fragile. We have the upper hand in basically every social structure in the U.S. How about we let people call it out without risk of being fired from their jobs?

Stone Mountain, GA

This race thing is just so stupid.

I’ve left students speechless in office hours by saying very bluntly, “It’s not my responsibility to make sure you get your work done.”

These are the exact kind of frilly trust fund babies that are driving up the cost of tuition for the rest of us. You, arts student, are an adult. Your education is your responsibility, not your mother’s, and she has no place filing complaints on your behalf. The furthest you should involve her in your education is to…

White fragility is real. I just got done writing a column in which I mentioned white fragility in the context of the recent shootings of unarmed black men and I just know my inbox will be inundated with butt hurt come Wednesday when it’s published. The mere act of mentioning racism is still a thing drives people…

She’s a bit like Jhumpa Lahiri in this regard. Both seem to be quite introverted, and not particularly fond of being ‘out in the open’. Granted, Lahiri to my knowledge has no online presence, but sometimes I’ve seen in interviews people trying to take her narratives into some preconceived notions about racial issues…

What a great way of completely missing the point and making this article about a stupid girl and a stupid kid and not shedding any light on the horrific situation in which immigrants from Africa find themselves when trying to cross to Europe. This is a story about a little boy and his father desperately trying to make…

The father was a resident of Spain, but his son was not. I’m sure he thought he was making the right choice to be able to raise his son in Spain, rather than Ivory Coast. Not to detract at all from how traumatizing it must have been for the little boy, but I think the context here is important, and it’s missing from…

Once I took my mother in so she could have a day surgery performed. We were sitting in that pre op room and she was sitting in a wheel chair. Unbeknownst to me they had already given her her pre surgery cocktail. The nurse came in and put this foil looking space bonnet on her head. We sat there in silence for a moment…