“Whiteness” is a construct designed by a particular group of people in order to exclude particular other groups and deny them their rights. It has been used to mean or to exclude a variety of people of varying skin tones and ethnic backgrounds, depending on what was convenient at the time. “Blackness” is also a social…

Yeah, it’s almost as if you have to think more deeply about what the phrase means instead of taking it at its most literal interpretation. Like a university student.

Welp. Here we go. Time to find out if our democracy is really as resistant to demagoguery as we all believed.

1) really not outraged.

Oh dig my grave both wide and deep,

Hot take alert:

That she ignore brown people and help white men.

Teaching people a lesson about fake news only works if THEY GAVE HALF A SHIT ABOUT THE NEWS BEING FAKE OR NOT!

Because sometimes guided meditation is helpful.

This is my fall/winter coat and I love it. I get a little sad when the weather warms up and I can’t get away with wearing it.

I’ve already loved this one. I don’t think getting Michel Gondry to direct your commercials is a realistic goal for most though.

What about favorites? Can we do favorites?

This kind of shit makes me livid. I’m a woman who works in tech. And while I think I have been very fortunate in my professional life in many ways, within the context of a creative digital agency and as a freelancer, it certainly has been bumpy at times.

In my experience there hasn’t been a great deal of overt sexism,…

I loooooooove the suggestion that one guy makes about Lester Holt sending Hillary the questions. She was so prepared that she had to have been given them, right? No way she could actually be that studious, that polished, that prepared.

I’m physically disabled - whenever I see or hear disability being used as a slur, it’s a gut punch. When what you are is considered the biggest insult you can throw at another person and it’s used so regularly so casually, you are made very aware of your position as a second class citizen. I know that a lot of common…

People who reject the feminist label to be a ‘humanist’, and people who believe in All Lives Matter over Black Lives Matter are examples of people who stand in the way of social progress. They’re obstacles to a better, equal society. They help to validate the opinion that disadvantaged groups aren’t actually…

Honestly, the whole premise of that question is built on some made-up nonsense. The idea that being offended makes somebody “right” is completely nonsensical. It’s a deliberate misrepresentation created by the right as a way to cast requests for decency as argumentative weapons.

As a Portland native, I endorse this message. Anyone using an umbrella is instantly recognized as an out-of-towner.