HER NAME IS LITERALLY FUCKING BECKY.

oh my god seeing beth ditto up there though is just like, everything to me rn

The people who work at Hot Topic are really nice but they sell low quality stuff at insane prices; they carry an incredibly limited selection of sizes; the people who shop there are obnoxious; they love the Harley Quinn + Joker merchandise that romanticizes domestic violence and mental illness; they list their…

nicki minaj is not allowed to be sad, ever again, in her life. i love her. i love her. i love her.

Senior year of high school, I got tickets to see Arcade Fire on the Suburbs tour in Memphis. No one ever comes to Memphis, and I grew up without a lot of money, and this was kind of an ENORMOUS treat. And I had SHIT seats, like two rows back from the second balcony wall where my HIGH SCHOOL ART TEACHER WAS SITTING and…

It’s white lady shit and I kind of love it (as a white lady who loves tacky shit).

Grew up listening to Bob Marley records while cleaning with my parents; something about "Buffalo Soldier" while cleaning just seems right.

yeah, that’s a real thing and i totally get that but yeah, the op-ed bullshit has to fucking stop.

Skinny Shaming is skinny people going “but body acceptance movement doesn’t accept bodies that are already accepted by literally everyone.” Like, the fact that I’m supposed to make room and worry about the feelings of people who daily make me feel like a fucking alien galls me to no fucking end. Get that shit outta…

God, fucking preach about jeans, Jesus Christ. The fact that I can’t buy jeans at Lane Bryant because they’re so abominably, frightfully, completely ugly is the fucking worst. Where the fuck are plus sized ladies supposed to buy fucking denim jeans, jesus fucking christ.

still not done mourning.

I moved from smalltown Mississippi to Portland for college, and I still have no idea how I feel about that decision or who I am or whether or not I want to go back. Because god, I miss home like I miss a fucking arm a lot of the time. I miss going to the grocery stores on Sundays and seeing people so pretty in their…

I also worked as a cashier at a grocery store, using a register/checkout system that was about twenty years out of date. I was working at a local, independently owned grocery store that primarily catered to lower income families and about half of our business was done through SNAP/EBT.
My experience is not a universal…

SNAP and other foodstamp benefits (EBT) are registered on a thing that looks a bit like a debit card. The debit card literally does not read the transaction for things that do not fall under SNAP or EBT; you literally can’t abuse it. You can’t use SNAP or EBT benefits to purchase paper products (so no school supplies,…

Oh god, yeah, I've taken classes on three languages now but the only one that I speak/read/comprehend enough of to read papers in is English. The US education system just isn't geared toward teaching secondary languages, which is really frustrating and difficult and needs to change.

MMm, yeah, I grew up in a really small town in the American South and I didn't have a lot of opportunities to travel and I didn't grow up with cable or internet, and these are all things that make your world a lot smaller and a lot more locally/regionally focused.

I know, and I'm trying to pay more attention to what's happening in Venezuela (and Central/South America and Mexico, in all honesty) but it's hard to find a place to start and it's hard to suddenly realize that this is what you need to do. It's definitely a weird blind spot- I realized the other day that I know…

The thing is, it's not always willful ignorance. Sure, there are people who don't know things and don't learn and are proud, but every instance of someone not knowing something is not an instance of willful ignorance. It's just not knowing. Are you talking about the coup attempt in 2002? Because I was in elementary…

Because long, large tragedies escape reporting fairly easily and quickly and it's hard to find information on things you don't know about when the problem is so big and has been happening for so long. Same reason people don't know about the conflict in the Congo or the ongoing attempts at indigenous genocide in…

Because long, large tragedies escape reporting fairly easily and quickly and it's hard to find information on things you don't know about when the problem is so big and has been happening for so long. Same reason people don't know about the conflict in the Congo or the ongoing attempts at indigenous genocide in…