In the meantime, Henrietta Lacks’ author Rebecca Skloot responded to the controversy on Facebook, saying that Sims has “confused gynecology with pornography.”

This is about my twin sister. First day of school, she was in second grade. A boy named Ricky started picking on her. Pulling at her hair, slapping, kicking and terrorizing her. She was scared but nobody did anything. The teacher just told Ricky to stop it but he continued. He was big and an asshole. He grabbed her…

I used to teach elementary art in a really low-income school district near Denver. One student, Franklin, was a third-grader who was homeless and living in a car with his mother at the time. The district and social services were aware and helping as much as possible, but mom was hard to work with due to some ongoing…

My first day of my senior year of college, some girl stopped me in the bookstore and asked if she could take a picture of me for some college fashion blog

you’re god damn right you can take a picture of me for your fashion blog

I am Monica the Monster from the fan section. I’m fighting back some tears right now at my office desk trying not to think about the NFC Championship. I would pay good money to have that memory erased completely.

I am completely of the opinion that if the governments of the world were led by a majority of women, there would be far less war, hostility, and suffering.

For what it’s worth, these douchebros made a sign that sounds like they want to call the father’s “Daddy,” not that they want the daughters to call them Daddy.

Our bridges are failing, we don’t have the funding to fight forest fires, there are wide swathes of this country that can’t get broadband and this guy thinks we’re going to build a wall?

I once had a b-list celebrity start whining to me at one point because I wouldn't give him the moon and he pulled the “don’t you know who I am” card. It was so satisfying to look him dead in the eyes and reply, “No, I don’t, and I don’t care.” His face was priceless.

Oooooooooooo. Miley.

I don’t get the dislike of RGIII. I’m not saying he’s faultless here, but I’ve never seen a narrative switch gears this quickly, especially when it’s more than apparent that vast majority of his issues are not his fault.

Oh my, I don't know how her funeral could top her Awake Wake! Do you plan on attending?

What a badass!

My grandma is a real bitch. Imagine Joan Crawford in Mommy Dearest and throw religion into the mix. That’s my grandma. She never let my mom and aunt have friends over, and any friends they did have, she started really terrible rumors about them. She never came to visit us, didn’t come to my wedding, my cousin’s…

So a week after I started this job, a guy who no longer worked at the publication I worked for died in a car accident. I never met him, and he was a copy editor so it wasn’t like I was familiar in any way with him through what he wrote.
But nevertheless, the EOC said everyone needed to go. So I went. And somehow the…

I am going to keep this one short and sweet.

So, here’s the thing. Aside from the fact that this conversation is wildly inappropriate for the workplace, these are people supposedly responsible for following evidence to its logical conclusion, for complex analytical situations, in addition to tactical street/traffic/ whatever stuff. The guy says, “my wife hated…

I was held in a police station once as a potential witness (there was a stabbing near a bar I had the bad luck of walking out of at the exact wrong moment) and when I informed the cop that it was 3am, I was not under arrest and I wanted to go home, he leered at me, and said in a creepy way “Maybe I need to handcuff…