He hasn’t been convicted yet.

You know that they’re shooting up a Planned Parenthood in Colorado, right? But . . . carry on with the leftovers posts. I guess that’s what a a women’s website is supposed to do.

Tough career women respond to tweet:

And what if you’d heard a fellow female journalist, sitting two seats away, call it “brutal“?

In defense of MFA programs, let’s add that Roxane Gay, Tiphanie Yanique, Camille Dungy, Evie Schockley, Claudia Rankine, Yiyun Li, ZZ Packer, Lan Samantha Chang, Yona Harvey, Danielle Evans, Nikki Finney, and Tayari Jones all teach or have recently taught at MFA programs, and I for one am pretty psyched about it.

I have been thinking about this essay, and the section about the public infantilization by the Rumpus editor because Watkins refused to share her bed with him is particularly galling. But I have to admit, as a call-to-arms, I found it a bit behind the curve. Don’t we know by now that we should read women authors, that…

Everyone in my yoga class is a tired mom who barely has time to wash the baby puke out of her hair, let alone apply henna. Or (in another time slot), cheerful retirees fending off the effects of arthritis. Maybe its regional, but these culturally appropriating “practitioners” are unknown to me.

I think we’d have to ban rock & roll, too, since its roots are in African-American music.