I’m in the grey so no one will see this anyway, but: I cried for joy when Obama was first elected and I will probably cry for joy when Clinton is elected (inshallah) because I get this symbolism, I really do. And I voted for both candidates. But as a woman of colour, a Muslim, the grandchild of refugees from a…

She sounds way cooler than the first women senator, Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton, who like many suffragists was also a devoted white supremacist:

Okay this is TMI but once I had the “jaysus I have to pee” moment during the sex and I *did* and it was not pee. I had an orgasm! It was soggy but amazing and my partner was so proud of himself.

I have a lot of poo and pee stories but those are private, so I’ll just share a particularly horrible vomit/menstruation tale.

I don’t think she does, she channels a very specific aesthetic and style super popular among Chicano and Latino communities. I myself didn’t become aware of that aesthetic until I lived in Los Angeles for a few years, but it’s a kind of “Mexi-goth” (as one friend put it) style that I saw at post-punk shows and parties…

No joke, I just found out that “In the pines” is what white people (?? I’m assuming, because...) call this classic blues song:

Harlem does not begin at 125th! Despite what the realtors pitch to aspiring UWS homeowners and tenants these days, it begins at 96th.

Sure, but if you ask a kid from Crown Heights where they’re from they’d say “Crown Heights” first and not Brooklyn. It doesn’t mean they don’t know that Crown Heights is a neighborhood in Brooklyn. When my fellow adults ask me where I live I say my neighborhood first, but we all understand what borough that…

The Compromise of 1877 led to a nadir of American race relations after the Civil War, a catastrophic rollback of all the gains African Americans had achieved during Reconstruction. Though the Radical Republicans had been a minority in the North for actually arguing that the federal government should intervene for…

This happened to me while I was babysitting once. I was watching the two adopted kids, about 1.5 years old, that lived down the block, and I was maybe 16 at the time. The parents were really granola types, only had super specific foods to feed the children, no snacks, no television, and only paid $2.50/hour. Oh well,…

I wish I had beautiful skin, but I don’t, so I’ll be over here wearing a half kilo of foundation pretending to have beautiful skin.

There are huge numbers of undocumented Asian immigrants. Especially in California. Tell your friend that they, like undocumented people from Central America, could use support and solidarity.

I also read that police confiscated mobile phones from many witnesses who had been recording from a nearby restaurant.

They were also accurate in their endorsement, noting that Clinton is a fairly reliable centrist. I think for those on the left who are going to hold their noses and vote for Clinton, this also rings true.

AMEN. “4 months off” my arse.

I’m many many days late to this, but a recent Jezebel post on Zara just reminded me of these:

In addition to all the other comments, Communications also has a strong theory component. So it’s not all (though it tends to be mostly) people who want to go into some sort of journalism/media career. It’s also stocked with a lot of faculty and students who are interested in how media culture operates, where it came…

For a closer analogy, orthodox Jewish women wear very similar swimming clothes to these same beaches in France. And yet, somehow the colonial rhetoric of “hygiene” has not been applied to them in France.

I tend to go to Senegalese, Anglo West African, Dominican, Haitian, and Maghrebi (and Egyptian) salons for my hair type - 3c/4a curls, they vary along my scalp. Also depends where I’m living at the time I need a shape up. Not all people who speak Arabic are the same? I don’t know if this is even worth posting, it just…

I haven’t been keeping track but I believe Southwest has booted more “Muslim” (ie brown folks/people who look nominally Muslim or Muslim-adjacent) than any other US airline in the last year or two.