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This is very powerful. I followed your thread on Twitter and it broke my heart. As an Indian-American woman I’ve experienced so much of what you describe here, including being told I had a “chip on my shoulder” for asking for a raise to bridge a small part of the $40,000 salary gap between me and the white man who had

On Performing Gratitude

I never planned on telling this story publicly. But what was once a private humiliation has become public media

Color me absolutely puzzled when as a sophomore at Xavier, I was shown Birth of a Nation in a film class. Yes, you ready that correctly, this cinema tripe was shown at an esteemed HBCU—by a white professor, no less.

Excellent work. There is no way that’s a tampon. How come no one consults tampon wearers before this shit goes viral?

I’m surprised the article didn’t mention Fiona Apple’s masterpiece ‘Fetch the Bolt Cutters,’ which not only DIDN’T suffer from being released during the pandemic, but felt like the perfect soundtrack to our anxious, cagey mood.

Wow that’s a ba-da-ba-ba-bad joke. 

She is NOT lovin’ it.

So, which is it? An unsettled and abusive childhood or an idyllic childhood?”

If Sohla says he’s bad he’s dead to me. Never liked him in the first place.

After an in-depth investigation by my Public Integrity Bureau, we have concluded that we would be unable to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that any individual committed any crime associated with Ms. Polanco’s demise.

I threw a full can of coke at Fred Phelps’ face. My aim is shit so I only knocked his stupid hat off but he knew it was me.

My first protest was in elementary school. The school had only one movie (The Red Balloon) and it played it every time lunch recess was cancelled due to bad weather. One day, on the third day in a row of cancelled recess, I took my spoon and fork in each hand and started pounding the table with them chanting “new

Trans March SF, back when I was a baby trans and still mostly masc-presenting! I was so dang nervous, because I wasn’t out at work and it was really one of my first times going out in clothes that sorta-kinda fit my gender identity. At that point, it still felt like I was waiting for the other shoe to drop-to get

I think you’re being a little harsh on this guy. He accomplished something pretty difficult to do at this stage of the protest; he made this about himself. That’s got to count for something.