I like the interview but I’d like to object to the term “Israeli-Arab”, which erases our identities as Palestinians. She says Israeli-Palestinian, which is great, but you said Israeli-Arab in your question so I just thought I’d point that out, hopefully in a way that doesn’t devolve into an internet comment war about…

So true. The only reaction subway creepers want from women is some combination of horror/fear/awe—I’m not even sure titillation is on the list. So if you do something else, they’re disappointed. I’ve probably told this one here before, but when I was a younger woman riding the subway at night and someone was doing the…

As a naturalized citizen myself, I would like to say that when I attended the formal swearing-in naturalization ceremony (along with about 1,000 other fellow Americans) I was also given one of those tiny American flags depicted in the photo, to wave about at the end.

On that topic, I know that we are reading about this on Jezebel — but does the mainstream news report on the ever-increasing rash of these women murdered by intimates or rejected paramours? If this had taken place in Pakistan, and someone threw acid in her face, it would be front page news, here, yes? But another…

Not the same state, but you get the idea. Fuck this shit.

200 Lakota men, women and children were slaughtered at Wounded Knee on Dec. 28, 1890 (How quickly white America forgets!) I wondered if Wounded Knee fits the modern definition of mass shooting, tho’, as it was multiple shooters & they were soldiers.

One point of correction: this isn’t the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the US. During the extermination of the native Americans, there were many massacres of this size and greater. This is only the deadliest mass shooting in recent history. I’m deeply upset about this too, but we cannot allow ourselves to…

All the more power to him considering that the next president of the United States considers that position to be “alarmingly anti-semitic.”

Oh, honey: everyone claims Rumi.

If you actually read what I’ve written, you’d realize that I didn’t say we should only speak out about injustices in our own culture. I’m saying that Western feminists should not dominate the conversation. Not that we shouldn’t take part in it at all.

Nobody here is suggesting that FGM is okay, or just some cultural difference. I am suggesting that playing white savior is not the best way to solve the problem.

Disregard Nicole, they think colonialism is an excuse. Colonialism was such a special period in African history. We sometimes will gather and tell nostalgic stories about baskets filled with the hands of Congolese villagers. Those were the days.

What you don’t understand is that posturing, moral superiority and jingoism are not tools that help build bridges. Outrage is one thing, but misplacing it to this extent helps no one.

I think it’s incredibly important that Western feminists with no connection to the cultures where this is practiced don’t dominate the conversation

Note: I am not a medical doctor, though I do work in the healthcare profession (initially made my burner to discuss my own health issues). If you’re curious about specific risk reductions after quitting, and other clinically-determined physiological changes, here’s a relatively detailed timelined link with some…

Race is perceived differently in places like Brazil in that a person that looks obviously mixed but has paler skin may be called “white” there, but make no mistake that anti-Blackness is the law of land, and Black Brazilians are severely under-represented, even though the majority of the country is either Black or…

Uh, is Fassbender the ugly one in the last pairing, because Nicole is beautiful.

21 years quit and counting. There will come a day when you will have to stop and ask yourself - wait, is it 11 years, or 12? 13?? No way!!!

I’m not a doctor, but you could ask for a chest x-ray if you’re truly worried. Also an EKG to see how your heart looks. If your GP doesn’t think you need these, ask why.

She’s a full scholarship student from Kentucky, and a black woman at the School of Engineering, a place where there are not a ton of people who are a) black or b) black women. At 19, I’m assuming she’s also a freshman. SEAS is pretty cut-throat and Columbia undergrad is also not exactly known for their advising…