A) Yes! Seriously, crossing a picket line is not ok. B) Nearly every other hotel in Chicago (except the Hyatt and the fucking Congress) has union workers working under contract. C) There has been a boycott against Hyatt for three years now, and UNITE HERE has repeatedly approached IML to change their venue, including…

OMG the locked in a fridge episode TERRIFIED me as a child! I'm just sad they missed the heart attack episode of Fresh Prince. It was a classic.

That is a huge pet peeve of mine! They also tend to highlight large national and international organizations rather than local groups that may also have a big impact. Not to mention direct service over organizing or advocacy, which doesn't tend to have the same kind of "program" expenses, but over the long run can…

Resource Generation are the best!

Many/most of these suggestions would only reach large national/international non-profits. I don't think Charity Navigator even lists groups with budgets of less than a million dollars, which excludes a ton of awesome grassroots organizations. As someone who is fairly far to the left of most of the mainstream, I try to…

There are so many issues with this post that I don't know where to start: A) 10 miles a week does not equal hardcore cyclist. B) A vulva is not a vagina. C) Pain and numbness in the vulva/perineum is not a "fertility" issue. It could be a comfort issue, or a sexual health issue, but unlike for men, it is not going to…

This seems like a terrible idea to me. Not only does being on the phone make you less aware of your surroundings, it can also make you a target for someone who a) is looking for a fancy phone like yours or b) is looking for someone who's clearly not paying attention. Not only was a friend of mine assaulted by someone…

I mean, live your life, but the whole body fat assessment thing just seems like another bogus way for corporations to make money off of your self hatred. Are you healthy? Do you do some sort of physical activity regularly? Are you happy with your body and they way you look? Than there is NO REASON to know your body…

It was at DOSE! My first time going there and probably my last :( The combination of fat shaming, $5 iced tea, and things I couldn't afford was overall depressing.

It doesn't matter what those machines measured! They could have been orgone detectors, for all the good they were doing. The important thing is that the gym/diet industry makes its money from shame and self hatred, and they have decided that (some) skinny people are immune to that tactic, so skinny fat is a new way to…

UGH! I saw that exact display, yesterday, at a super hip market in Chicago, filled with rich attractive fashionable young people. The worst part was they had a body fat measuring machine set up in front of it, and skinny people were waiting in line to be told if they were actually fat. It made me want to stab.

I'm not defending IC here, as I think the calls for military intervention are problematic, BUT as a non-profit nerd, I would say that spending 34% of their budget on direct relief is NOT in and of itself a problem. They are not a relief organization! They are an advocacy organization. Advocacy work is staff heavy. You…

OMG I hate read XOJane every day! I. CAN'T. STOP. There is so much privilege and narcissism and poor decision making masked as girl power on that site, I can't even deal. Except for Leslie Kinzel who is consistently rad to the degree that I feel kind of bad for her being associated with the rest of that dreck.

It makes me sad/angry/crazy. Even in the Fantastic Mr. Fox, which was a claymation movie, when they went out into the human world, even in the crowd scenes there was not a SINGLE person of color. Just like in this film! It's like Wes Anderson is incapable of imagining anyone other than white people. I love his films,…

Yeah, everything that Leslie writes is BRILLIANT, and everything else is clueless, tone deaf, infuriating and/or offensive. I mostly read it to shout at it.

After I got into a bike crash, (having twisted open my ankle, torn through all of my ligaments, and sustained an injury that would require two surgeries and a year of recovery), I lay on the ground waiting for the ambulance apologizing for being such a pussy and probably making too big a deal out of nothing.

Yeah that story is great. She also says something along the lines of "people describe the book as a book about being a teen, through the metaphor of war. It is actually a book about war, through the metaphor of war, featuring teens."

I'm reposting what has been posted down thread because I think this article really misframed what was in the flier. The full announcement had an unequivocal denunciation of sexual violence and assault, and provided info for women who wanted to go to the cops. but it ALSO provided alternative structures for folks who…

While any number of horrifying accounts have come out of Libya, and I'm sure that there are more to come, the accounts of mass rape, and the work of this psychiatrist in particular, have been called into question by human rights organizations:[www.independent.co.uk]

No, actually this comment implies that the NY Post based a full page cover story on unsubstantiated innuendo from someone close to the defense. And I think that Jezebel has an obligation to mention that somewhere in their post, instead of just repeating those claims in their headline and in their article. I don't…