Wow, it sounds like you went through so much before you got your mom (and she got you). It sounds like she was incredible woman and parent and very much like she passed being a great mom on to you.

I think she’s full of it but more to the point: I don’t understand bragging about being the other woman. I’ve been the other woman and what is there to brag about? Being the one who is good enough to have sex with but not good enough to spend holidays with and who is easy to leave is not a boast worthy situation. I…

My sister is white and her daughter is adopted and Black, and I see her sometimes struggling because there are times when there are no words for her feelings, because as a parent she feels such deep pain for the hate directed at her child and the road she is going to face as a Black woman in America, but she can never…

Except this isn’t a sudden change in bathroom etiquette. North Carolina’s law is the change in bathroom etiquette, not this. Until a law exists to restrict bathroom use in the way that law does, people are free to use whichever bathroom they’d like.

That’s Aydian Dowling and if you’re on Instagram, I highly recommend you follow his account (alionsfear). He is, thankfully, a big fan of shirtless selfies. There was one a few weeks ago in a pair of dark jeans that ....yeah. Gorgeous, gorgeous man.

Side chick rule #1: you don't get to accuse the woman you helped betray of drama when she calls you out.

He also supported and hired Misty Copeland. I can’t believe there’s no mention of that here!

I’m probably preaching to the choir this (not to mention likely repeating other arguments) but the intellectual laziness around these bathroom laws breaks my brain. Putting aside the gross Crying Game argument that trans people are just liars who will always be the gender they were assigned at birth, because there’s…

I agree that people shouldn’t lose their jobs over it. The suicide matter is much more complicated than “if they hadn’t been potentially outed then they would still be alive”.

Some of this is in a reply I made to another commenter but:

I agree that not all of the circumstances that lead to cheating is equal. I do not think cheaters are the literal worst humans on Earth. I have been a mistress, I professionally aid and abet cheaters and have been cheated on myself, so I’m no saint myself. That being said....

I’m so excited to see this that I’m having a little get together with other legal minded activist ladies (side note: surprised at the lack of ideas online for law and/or feminist themed snacks and baked goods). That said, I have a huge crush on Wendell Pierce and am kind of dreading watching him be Clarence Thomas. I…

So much this. When I was in high school, I was cast as the lead in one of our plays. At one point the director (also an English teacher) asked me to go with him to talk alone in the school’s greenhouse about how my past could be integrated into my role. He told he knew that my biological mother died when I was little…

Why is she still getting attention? Putting her on tv seems like large scale troll feeding. Here are some suggestions for the Today show on how they could better fill their time:

I knew who the people were in 7 of these photos. 7. I feel very old and very uncool! Also: the Real World is still on? Oof.

The countries I know the most about are the United States and Canada, but I’ve read reports from sex worker rights organizations in various parts of Eastern Europe, India and Thailand that include information on their trafficking/forced labor stats being inflated. Women there report that there are volunteers from NGOs…

I've thought about giving up on the dream job that I've been chasing for years (thanks recession!) and going back to school to do that but after three degrees and a fair amount of loans the idea of more tests and more loans is too much. I will just stick to armchair therapisiting in comments sections! (But thank you!)

I’m not saying this to be bitchy, but do you have a study you can link to that says “most” sex workers are doing it out of coercion? A legit, fact checked, pretty air tight study? Trafficking stats are grossly inflated (there are links a few posts down). It does happen but I wouldn’t say “most”.

You’re right that sexual autonomy should not be for sale and cannot be bought. What you’re failing to see is that the women you’re talking about are all people who are capable of making decisions about their own bodies. That we *are* sexually autonomous. And just because sex that involves an explicit financial…

So here is a question I’ve always wondered about in regard to those who think like you: