If you haven’t already, you should check out The Red Parts (by Maggie Nelson) where she talks about how white women’s deaths are always press fodder. Her aunt was a serial killer victim, and the book speaks pretty frankly about how nightly true crime shows won’t cover African-American murders.

On NPR, they said that the gerrymandering is so strong that it’s 3 to 1 republican votes, even though most of the state votes Democratic. NC’s always in court trying to deny that it breaks up districts filled with African-Americans into gerry-rigged nightmares.

Pipeline burst in Alabama and it hit the south hard. We were out of gas by Sunday night and they are saying hopefully it will be fixed in a week. HA!

I’d add that Greensboro is also a liberal safe-haven. Our section of the UNC system is trying to fight HB2 and made safe bathrooms all over campus for transgender students. Go about ten miles north, though, and there are PVC crosses dripping with fake blood in people’s yards. Not. Even. Joking.

Thank you; I was just about to post the same. He’s on the radio claiming he’s stopping gas gouging, but where I am THERE IS NO GAS, and when there was (Sunday-ish) it was $4 a fucking gallon. He can’t possibly win again, right?!

There should be so much rage towards him. He’s jailed countless (literally, the number was around 1000 four years ago) protesters, most of whom were teachers and preachers, who spoke out against his abortion policies. And when planned parenthood tried to speak to him about the abortion/motorcycle safety law, he…

As someone living and teaching in NC, McCrory can FUCK HIMSELF when he suggests he’s for the teachers. He gave raises to *new* teachers and screwed over returning/experienced teachers, which pissed off so many people, that they left the profession out of principle. He then created a license plate intended to bring…

Not sure where I read it (the review was posted in a sea of others on Rotten Tomatoes) but a reviewer really tried to drive home how rape-y this movie was, and how truly cavalier they treated the scene. I had been mildly interested in watching it because I like horror, but after reading that I was shocked at the…

I think that this happens a lot whenever the abuser is family. I’ve noticed across numerous news articles that whenever the abuser is a family member, there tends to be apologetic language or less “outraged” language when the family member hits his/her own child. I’ve shared some pretty heinous stories with “friends,”…

As a former grad student in a department where we were TAs who were instructors of record (we were basically worse paid adjuncts), I’m doubly disappointed that universities are fighting this so hard BECAUSE they position themselves as liberal, and most of the time, pro-union institutions. Of course, it’s easier to…

PhD in English here: yup, it’s the same. I thought that I would feel less anxious/harried after I graduated, but it’s worsened. Academia is a petty, bewildering place and it’s so much harder when you are a woman.

Pretty sure he is alluding to the Irish Indentured Servitude Internet Argument (in caps because it might as well be trade-marked) where white people like to complain that the Irish were treated just as bad as slaves. Now, the Irish did live in poverty and were excluded from various positions, BUT it wasn’t slavery.…

Seriously. The votes for Nader in place of Gore is what led to the George W Bush debacle. I understand that people are tired of the 2-party system, but a vote for Stein is seriously a vote for Trump, whose corruption and idiocy are far more dangerous.

Oh man, they were so brutal to her during the Clinton administration. For every person’s cynicism over her “sticking by her man” (which is sexist AF), I admire someone who lived through that morass and who still had the guts to run for president. The fight to denigrate her has been real and no, she’s not perfect and…

Emmet was such a powerful recognition of how little time (contextually) women have had in politics. My great-grandmother died a few years ago, and she was born in 1916, also before her right to vote. She NEVER got to see a woman presidential candidate. Clinton broke the ultimate glass ceiling last night (other than…

The documentary Going Clear solidified that Scientologists are morons, so carry on!

So my issue with this is it feels like one more act of political theater. Cruz didn’t endorse Trump because he’s had a change of heart. He’s doing it for the next stage of his career.

Also, she would never let this b.s. go down in Equestria.

Wouldn’t it just be great if our leaders (or wanna be future leaders) just owned up and apologized? If they just used the same basic skills we teach our kids in kindergarten?

I’ve become convinced over the last few days that if we substituted a moldy, speaking parsnip for Trump, and said Parsnip was carried to the microphone and spewed the same language, that Republicans wouldn’t even care. They will follow/listen to anyone who shouts the racist/bigoted things they want to hear. Trump is…