Mr. Dix and I have really been procrastinating about names for our baby boy due in a couple months. We have a few contenders (Basil, Iggy, Theo, Orion, Valentine, Dominic, Caleb, Finn) but no real forerunners. If we were having a girl we would lean heavily towards nature names (Juniper, Marigold), Ukrainian names…

So I love nail polish. I have kind of a lot for someone who rarely paints her own nails (most of it Essie). The things that stops me from painting are three-fold: 1) I always seem to ding it up or get smushes in it while waiting for it to dry. It seems dry but I guess is not? 2) It chips so fast it doesn’t seem worth…

So, I’m freaking out a little bit. My pregnancy has been fairly rough so far (my mom’s most recent TERRIBLE comment was, “I’m sorry you’re not finding a way to enjoy this experience.”) but I thought I was gonna head into the final trimester relatively smoothly. Now it seems like I might have gestational diabetes. :/…

So I love nail polish. I have kind of a lot for someone who rarely paints her own nails (most of it Essie). The things that stops me from painting are three-fold: 1) I always seem to ding it up or get smushes in it while waiting for it to dry. It seems dry but I guess is not? 2) It chips so fast it doesn’t seem…

UPDATE: Thanks so much to everyone who responded. Your stories and advice warmed my heart! I also had a very well-timed outing to go see the Vienna Boys’ Choir holiday concert at Carnegie Hall this afternoon, and all those cute singing boys, plus Mr. Dix’s utter delight at them (and his general holiday cheer and our…

So, somewhat to our horror and amazement, Mr. Dix and I are having a baby! I’m sick as a dog and really REALLY hoping things get better soon (I’m almost 9 weeks). To distract myself, I was thinking it would be a good idea to invest in a real person camera so that my baby photos are a step up from smartphone photos. …

I’m trying to put into words but can’t exactly why I feel so drawn to the word CUNT right now. Maybe it’s because it seems the most vulgar and unladylike thing I can say that is making it suddenly beautiful to me. Enough men have called me one; I want to wear a giant CUNT sign around my neck at the women’s march. …

So, when I was younger, I was super politically active. I was an amateur activist in college and then it became my career. For five years or so I read (and wrote!) the blogs, went to the protests, called the representatives, did community outreach full time. And then I just... couldn’t any more. I went into…

So, I bought the Lily Cup (compact) a few months ago, and overall I’ve really enjoyed it. At first I found it difficult to put in, and it still kind of increases my cramps every time I put it in/empty it. However, most days it’s very convenient, lets me change it less often than a tampon or pad, and is quite…

So I just saw a trailer for this film and googled it to read the plot summary. In a nutshell (for those too lazy to do the same), a rich dude gets paralyzed and becomes quadriplegic after an accident. He is super depressed and desperate and wants to commit assisted suicide (how is this ok? unclear) but agrees to wait…

Okay, so I have literally tweeted twice in my life, but I hear you crazy GTers are Twitter masters. Here’s the situation. BrainPop is a well-known website that has short animated educational videos designed to be used in K-8 lessons. Topics range from grammar rules to scientific inventions to long division to historic…

So I’m a middle school teacher. All 7th grade teachers have to teach an advisory class in addition to their academic classes. We do units on college, nutrition, study skills, stress, etc. We also do a unit every spring on sex/sexuality/puberty/healthy relationships. Traditionally, we split the kids out of their normal…

It’s February here in NYC. I think that’s a relevant detail to include in this story of WTF Transit Issues. So I get on the subway on my way home from work, and it’s pretty crowded. There’s one potentially free seat between two larger dudes, but one of them is kind of splayed out into it, with his bag on it and…

I really am feeling like an old (except the 90s were my glory days!). Maroon crushed velvet? Onyx-crystaled chokers? Chunky weird patent leather platform disco heels? Overly distressed denim? These things were super ugly when they happened the first time around. Why are they back?

So I took yalls advice and got the lily cup compact (I think. All the names are the same! It’s the one that collapses into that mini case). I’m finally trying it, and I have a few questions:

When you are sitting on the couch in the middle of drafting an important work email and you hear your cat puking on the bathroom tiles, and then you hear the jangle of your dog’s collar and a whole bunch of happy slurpy licking sounds, and then you walk into the bathroom and the floor is clean. :)

Short version: I teach middle school. I have a student who has come out as not identifying as either male or female and wanting to use “they/them” pronouns. They want to talk to our class about this and have asked if maybe we could watch a video or read an article about genderqueer/agender/non-binary terms and FAQs…

These are always fun and I have a headache and lots of procrastinating to do. So, tell me something unique about yourself/what you do, and I (and others) will feel free to Ask You Anything!

So, to get straight to the point: what do y’all think of the proposition that inherently, women are “more expert” about feminism than men? Let’s assume that both parties here actually affirmatively self-identify as feminists, with some amount of sweat in the game (ie neither is a weird right winger trying to stir shit…