On Trans Visibility Day, let’s remember that trans people sometimes need abortions, too. Abortions are hard enough to access, now imagine being a trans person trying to find a provider and then trying to find a way to pay for it. Please consider donating to a National Network of Abortion Funds donor drive happening…

We’re part-way through the annual National Network of Abortion Funds donor drive! Won’t you please help a sister out and support my fundraiser? Money goes to ARC Southeast and people who need abortions in Georgia but are unable to access them safely because of all sorts of financial difficulties. It only takes a…

Meanwhile, us South Asian people are out here in whatever old clothes feel most comfortable asking, “yes, what even is yoga anymore?”

Oh that’s a great idea, I’ll give that a go!

I’m trying to make this little guy, but I’m new to sewing and fabric things, and cannot figure out how to turn the little flippers inside out once I sew the sides together. They’re just so small that I can’t do it.

I completely agree. I have deep dislike for Keira Knightley for lots of reasons (I just don’t think she’s anything special despite how people used to fall over themselves about her, and I was super mad that she’s the one who became famous after a meh performance in Bend it Like Beckham when the movie was about a brown…

Agree on the English and American brown actors. Bollywood actors can dance, but they don’t actually sing, they lip sync very well though, and honestly, that might be preferable given the recent experience of enduring the singing in La La Land by anyone not named John Legend.

Didn’t do family dinners growing up, don’t feel like I missed out on anything.

I was in town when this happened, but I was there for the 66th annual EIS Conference down the street. This is the flagship CDC program/conference, and we all felt like we were being epically trolled by this timing...especially if you consider that everyone there was on pins and needles about the budget and whether or…

Rothy’s. They’re machine washable so don’t worry about the usual smell that comes from wearing flats, sneaker-like soles, plenty of cushion for your feet, look sort of like knitted nikes so they’re not stiff at all and feel really nice and soft against your feet, but all in a flat that still looks great. I’m a fan.…

I’m guessing you’re not actually interested in having a discussion, given your language. Have a lovely and fulfilling day.

Agree that Anne Hathaway has always seemed thoughtful, and that’s often misinterpreted as disingenuous. Compare her to Jennifer Lawrence, who thankfully has experienced some level of a backlash, but no where near as vitriolic as I remember Hathaway receiving back then. By and large, Lawrence continues to inhabit the…

As someone now entering the humanitarian space and also the emerging infectious diseases space for my career, this is incredibly upsetting and frightening. I’m in this work because I believe that we must do what we can to make lives easier and even marginally more equitable for those millions of people we have screwed…

No need to get emotional. Its an issue of math contending with institutional racism. Because these women turned in incredible performances, and 3 out of 5 were black, so if we are rewarding excellent performances all else being equal, then the probability of one of the black women winning is highest, but this is also…

To be fair, no one else in the world calls it Doctors Without Borders except Americans, and Americans within the organization also call it MSF/Medecins Sans Frontieres (full disclosure: I’m in the volunteer pool).

Totally on board with the pretentious asshat bit, though. I’m glad I muted it and only have to read about…

Considering La La Land is winning all the awards for literally no reason, her speech and Atlanta are the only things making me okay with giving them the views.

Viola’s tribute to Meryl is making me cry. Viola is the best at making me cry.

I swear to god if either Nicole Kidman (who admittedly was fantastic in Lion) or Michelle Williams had won that category with Viola fucking Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Naomi Harris? I’d have burned it all down.

Does anyone else wonder if John Legend also secretly wishes Moonlight had taken this?

1) Can we talk about that baby Sunny Pawar?? He was that movie and I basically starting crying as soon as he came out in that little tux and he spoke some English (because representation matters and he is basically all of my little cousins).

2) La La Land deserves none of this, and I am already dreading the Oscars.