It’s decided. If I ever get married, I’m wearing a cape!

That explains why a sponsored post from D. Trump’s donation site just showed up on my Facebook feed advertising inauguration day tickets!

I used to agree that pre-cut, pre-peeled, packaged fruit and vegetables were a waste, until I discovered Kim Sauder’s blog crippledscholar, in which she explains how these packaged fruits and vegetables greatly enhance the diet of the disabled and elderly: https://crippledscholar.com/2016/03/04/when-accessibility-gets-…

I saw Hidden Figures at a pre-screening with Shetterly in attendance. It was an amazing, eye-opening film that tackles racism, sexism, and segregation with the right balance of humorous and uncomfortable moments. And this only represents a thin sliver of the history Shetterly describes in her book. Everyone and their…

Many years ago when my then-boyfriend and I decided that we wanted to start having sex, I went to PP to get on birth control. I was young and did not know much about birth control, but thankfully the name Planned Parenthood had stuck with me in association with it, though I don’t remember when I first heard of the…

Do you happen to have any numbers on how the homeless population in SF has grown over the last decade? Or any other information on this issue? I thought that SF has for many years drawn a lot of homeless people from surrounding areas due to its better shelters and support for the homeless, but my thoughts are…

I saw this at ART and I recall some dialogue near the beginning where someone asks her if she wants to get rid of the baby and she says no. Not sure if the dialogue is still there or if this is some part of my memory that I am recalling incorrectly, but if that is the case then the show is pro-choice in my mind. The…

I saw this when it was playing at ART in Cambridge! The music was amazing, as was Jessie Mueller, and the show has probably only gotten better in the last several months. I swear I’m not a biased pie fanatic. See it on Broadway if you can!

As much as I would enjoy seeing this happen, it doesn’t seem likely to me that those who control the SW franchise will allow an on-screen display or even acknowledgement of an LGBT character. It would risk the films being banned in China, which has been a huge source of profits so far.

Kudos to Zuckerberg for trying to hold his employees accountable, as well as holding town halls to try to educate them on important social issues.

In short, yes. Since I’ve been in graduate school, I’ve come to appreciate and rely on other people’s expertise in areas such as those you listed. Digging through raw data sources for the real numbers and drawing my own conclusions from them takes a long time, and I don’t have enough of a background in any of these…

I don’t find Jimmy Fallon particularly funny in general. I used to watch clips of the games he plays with celebrities on his show, because there’s something humanizing about celebrities playing party games. Jane Lynch’s show is much better for that purpose, though.

Too many times I’ve seen men interrupt and/or talk over women, but not the other way around. Men (in general) need to learn how to take turns speaking, as opposed to women learning how to interrupt and talk over men. Talking over people was regular practice at one of my former male-dominated work-places. It was like…

Please don’t stop talking about politics! Who will have power and what they will do with it is one of the most important issues, and we need more people like you who are willing to talk about them openly, even if it means respectfully disagreeing with our friends.

I know Steve Martin is trying to be funny, but detecting a gravitational wave is a huge fucking deal, y’all! We don’t need celebrities laughing off one of the greatest scientific discoveries of our time.

Many young people attend Wheaton because they have had a conservative upbringing and don’t imagine educational alternatives. As they mature, they sometimes question what they’ve been taught and the rhetoric around them. In these cases, it’s incredibly valuable to have a faculty to turn to who can help reconcile faith…

Tangentially related, I’ve been volunteering at several homeless shelters serving food this past week (trying to make the best out of being alone for the holidays), and one practice I’ve noticed many of them have is to not let anyone go through the line for second helpings. At the end of the service, the chef throws…

My mother introduced me to Star Wars (as well as Star Trek). Without her influence, I would just be another woman at a tech-centric university, or maybe I wouldn’t be here at all. Instead, my Star Wars trivia leaves even my nerdiest friends in the dust! Thanks Mom!

Here’s a *short* list that you can start with:

One of my college classmates worked there as a software engineer right after graduation. This was back when they were small enough that they listed every employee and their picture on their website, along with a blurb about what their favorite clothing item was or something along those lines. His answer was a T-shirt.…