I’m not sure why you think the deaths of innocent people via execution are any less a certitude than the deaths of innocent people via other individuals. Innocent people have already been executed. Racism has always been integral to the criminal justice system; politicians have long stoked fears of violent crime by…

Korean woman adopted by white parents here! Without knowing your daughter’s age or other family dynamics, I’d say that what I would have wanted for myself growing up was for my parents to create space for me to talk about what I was experiencing. I grew up in a town with very few other Asian kids and was angry for…

Trump-supporters are pretttyy emboldened by the social and political structures that promote racism, misogyny, ableism, transphobia, and all other forms of oppression, and by public figures, elected officials, and discourse that either actively reinforce or fail to aggressively challenge such positions. We should be…

I get you. I had a situation with a friend recently who drunkenly said some pretty hurtful things, both to my face and to my friends (whom she asked not to tell me). We had a pretty emotional conversation a few days later. I was fine with continuing our friendship because her apology was genuine, discussed her own…

I played Murder Barbie too! I was obsessed with mystery stories and was also allowed to watch too many horror movies and crime shows as a kid. Ken stalked and murdered the barbies; Princess Jasmine (the only doll I identified with as an Asian girl) was the undercover detective/final girl who caught him and saved…

I don’t know if this is in the comments already, but I hear the Trans Lifeline does a lot of good work.

Yep. All day yesterday I felt exactly the way I do when the death of a friend has coincided with having the flu. Body aches, crying jags, general incompetence at tasks of daily living. I drank and stress ate a lot. I feel better today, although I still got embarrassingly emotional listening to Des’ree on the way to…

Agreed. I alternated between Lemonade and A Seat at the Table throughout last night’s final hellacious hours and it did me well.

Oh I’m so sorry! The word that kept coming to mind when I was driving through Wyoming was “unforgiving” - I had mostly great weather since it was summertime, but I can imagine the winters are pretty brutal.

Oh my god, I cannot imagine camping in Wyoming. As a lifelong city girl, even driving through Wyoming on the main interstate can be a little...unnerving.

I don’t really eat there anymore, but when I had 15-minute breaks at my old job to get food and come back, I ate there almost daily because it was the quickest option. I was grateful every time for not getting food poisoning though!

Campisi’s!! One of my fav spots. I don’t go home to Dallas very often anymore but I always crave it.

So perfectly written, I loved this! I was dying at “a little cluster of baby bunnies in Old Navy fleeces.”

I’m just a lowly pleb who staffed a psychiatric emergency clinic with zero Krav Maga experience

In my county, we have mobile teams of licensed mental health professionals who are specifically dispatched by police & EMS to divert callers w/possible mental health issues from jail, hospitals, etc. This has been helpful but still involves an initial contact with police. We have other mobile teams that can be…