Yeah I don’t think it’s really fair to be too hard on yourself about whether or not a fear of heights is rational. I’ve given this some thought and ultimately, I think it actually is pretty rational to be afraid of heights. It’s just not rational in the way dismissive people want you to be.

Good. Let this serve as a reminder that women have always, always fought. Vikings had shield maidens and Shaka Zulu had his all-female body guard. Women dressed as men to join the fight. They take up arms and become rebels and guerillas. In Russia they become bombers and tankers and snipers. In feudal Japan they…

We’re sending over a team. Hope you people like shiplap.

Queen Sugar had me hooked from the opening scene of Rutina Wesley in bed waking up slowly the light highlighting her gorgeous skin and locs. The dichotomy of the siblings lives and how different they are and how they are showing the complexities of being black....I am obsessed already can’t wait for the episode…

It’s in Florida now. Very much a swing state. There were already cases of Zika in my town a month ago (folks who picked it up during travel, but, it’s here).

People who are so vehemently against a woman’s right to choose are usually the same people who can’t understand nuance.

what’s the big deal? republicans just want to make sure that black kids are born with disabilities. its wicked easy to put a disabled person without a proper support system in jail. won’t someone think of the prison industry? theyve been picked on so much

Health care in the U.S. is a disaster. In 2014 the maternal death rate was the second highest among the 31 OECD countries. In Texas, the maternal death rate doubled from 17.7 per 100,000 live births in 2000 to 35.8 in 2014. The maternal death rate in Germany is 4.1.

So Damned true. Its this deliberately hidden history which gives so many people, including trump, the cover to deny the contributions of people of color to this nations progress. It is particularly galling that many of those deniers work with smart capable people of color every DAMNED day, and went to school with…

I’ve been a white male science geek for 30 years and never heard of these ladies. Normally, I hate biopics, but this is one I’ll have to watch. I feel just a wee bit robbed of not knowing the people that did the dirty work to make it happen way back when. All I saw was “The Right Stuff” with the cocky fighter pilots…

It's not owned by them. The burial space is about half a mile north of the reservation's boundary. The tribe technically does not have rights to it. That is likely because the burial site could have been "lost" and was not included in the parameters of the reservation when it was originally drawn up, and could have…

The tribe wasn’t even asking for they to do that, just yet. They were asking for a chance to conduct in-depth studies to determine what exactly is at the site (how many remains, artifacts, etc.) - THEN come up with options. And yes, there are options - preserving the site, re-interment elsewhere, etc. People believe…

They did this on a reservation legally owned and governed by the Sioux? Not that I’d expect the Federal Government to break their streak of failing to honor a single treaty with various Native American tribes, but I thought reservations were at least some space of dignity and autonomy for Native Americans. Just…

Personally, I’m exhausted by the idea that we have to accept other women’s racism/classism/cisgenderism simply because they identify themselves as “feminists” and sometimes talk about body image, abortion and equal pay. There is room for debate and discourse among women, and there needs to be space for critique of the…

That is a great question. Thank you for asking.

The crackhead bit is abhorrent. It’s either designed to to sound exactly how it sounds or embody their “I’m so post-raceclassgender I can make an extremist joke that people (less evolved than me) would make in earnest.” Either way, fuck you.

When I first hit publish, I had put “pendant” instead of “pedant.” I corrected it immediately, but it wasn’t showing up right away. Those were a tense 3 minutes as I waited for the edit to show up and hoped that no pedants would show up to call me out for using the wrong word for pedant.

Everyone: “Blah blah Demelza and Ross are obviously DOING IT, what a whore”