If you want people to care about humanity dying out in ~5 billion years, I don't know what to tell you. Most people can barely comprehend hundreds of years (we just don't live that long as an organism). Also, humans can't even get along peacefully right here on earth, why would you want us to possibly run across…

Don't cut your wrists with all that Edginess.

Even after Roe, with all the progress abortion rights have made, the incredible stigma and shaming associated with it keeps us silent. When I got mine and spoke up about it, I discovered that about half the women in my sphere had had an abortion. I had no idea how common it was.

Women dying from unsafe illegal abortions is a feature in the right wing's vision of the future. It's not a bug. To them, uppity women who actually think they should be able to have bodily autonomy and actually believe they are real human beings are whores who deserve to die.

Having been raised in the anti-abortion movement, I have to take issue with the idea that "they really and truly believe it's murder" on any kind of wide scale. In fact, what first started me questioning the idea that what I'd been taught about abortion was true when when, at age 11 or 12, I passionately asked why, if…

Actually, I'm going to harden my previous stance.

No, actually, they don't. They'd love for you to believe that, but they just want to punish sluts and whores. I worked for an anti-abortion group for three weeks, and the higher ups were all nasty old white dudes who'd chase women around the desk if they got a chance. When the TV cameras were on, it was all, "Please…

So you want me to lend legitimacy to their nonsense? No, thank you.

Fine, then. It's baby killing, if they want it to be.

"I know a lot of people think that white people will be more willing to listen to a message if it's coming from someone who looks like them, but that doesn't make it right and it doesn't mean that's the approach you should take. Force a change. Force your white friends to listen to POC."

"I know a lot of people think that white people will be more willing to listen to a message if it's coming from someone who looks like them, but that doesn't make it right and it doesn't mean that's the approach you should take. Force a change. Force your white friends to listen to POC."

"if anyone bothered to listen."

I don't feel this is a redirect of the conversation, this is the conversation. Its all part of the conversation. Black peoples stories from the #AliveWhileBlack tag and white peoples stories from the #CrimingWhileWhite, they are two sides to the same coin. Black people having the conversation in a vacuum (as another…

I think you need to keep in mind, though, that a lot of the apologists say "if a white person did what (insert murdered black person here) did, they'd have been shot too." We need to counter that narrative, because it's ridiculous.

But, I thought white people discussing their own white privilege was really good progress. How many times have white people ignored the fact that white privilege even exists? Why is it a bad thing that white people are finally willing to not only acknowledge white privilege, but discuss it with real world examples?

Here's a suit that says "I HATE SANDWORMS"

Here is a quick note on rape and physiological arousal, particularly as it pertains to male victims of rape.

you know what I find offensive? 18 year olds getting shot and prosecutors intentionally throwing the case

One of those people is supposed to be trained and working to protect the other. They're not operating on even playing fields so "across the board" doesn't work on these two levels. Better education and training was definitely needed on Officer Wilson's part because he is a police officer, carrying weapons and supposed…

Holy god I never realized that was his role. Brilliance.