I’ve noticed a trend among a certain group of people where historical context is deliberately ignored in these sort of instances. Threatening to lynch the first African American president isn’t racist if our nation’s history of using lynching as a mechanism of terror against blacks is completely ignored. Everything…

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

Issues like this illustrate just how white and male-dominated higher education has always been, particularly when juxtaposed with the uproar about Dr. Saida Gundy’s remarks that challenged the white patriarchy. Comparing the two, it’s quite clear that, while students want to be challenged in a context-responsive way…

Thank you for this—this is a great piece. There’s so much hand-wringing about trigger warnings and censorship and people yelling about how “being offended doesn’t make you right,” and I think it’s all kind of a red herring. Of course students should be challenged, of course professors shouldn’t be constrained—nobody’s…

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Here’s my problem with your discomfort. I think “innocent until proven guilty” is a good criminal legal standard, but the crime of rape is statutorily incredibly hard to prove, which reflects the sexist history of rape essentially being a property crime. Even if every aspect of the system worked perfectly to convict…

“WHITE BOY WASTED”!

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So people feel okay giving money to cops who are on paid leave after murdering an unarmed citizen on camera but giving to a woman who gave birth to a child she didn’t know she was carrying on a fucking airplane is asking too much? That’s greedy?!

You just reminded me of my favorite country song of all time: The Devil Went Down to Georgia.

Side note: stone mountain is a horrifying monument celebrating treason.

If you would like more info, another alumna and myself have been trying to get things trending on twitter and facebook. She’s also written a great roundup of our issues on her Kinja to make it easy to share. There’s info there to contact the school if you’d like to help. Additionally, two hashtags #ISupportSiada and #A…

Well there’s a good chance that dude is less of a fucking idiot than you are, so I guess that’s a reason to be bitter. In the real world most people are on SNAP for less than a year, so it already is the ‘temporary fix’ you want it to be. The only people who are on SNAP long-term are some elderly and disabled people…

Oh for sure. Cobain was by all accounts a sweet guy, identified as a feminist and was too shy to be comfortable with fame. Lennon was a narcissist who hit his wife and got off on his fame. Regardless of who people think is more talented out of the two of them, Cobain was definitely a better human being.

What do you do when YOU’RE the tourist attraction? I shit you not, I had a total of 10-20 people ask to take a picture with me. The best one were the complete strangers who handed me their BABY and posed with the big white girl. Very strange.

I agree with you BTW. In many cultures taking a picture without permission…

My mum likes taking photos of local residents too. I keep telling her that she should not do it without permission. I get it, people going about their daily lives are more interesting than houses and streets but you have to ask first. She has travelled a lot all over the world and always does tons of research to put…

I just need to declare something. Not you you, rivalamoureux, but to Slate.com. Imagine I’m standing on a table with a megaphone. Ahem.

No. Flat out, NO. I live in Sihanoukville, Cambodia and the worst thing you can do is interact with street kids. I know it’s tough, but teaching them to braid, stamping their hands, giving them money (especially) is very, very dangerous. I don’t know how to say this eloquently, but white people look the same. Being…

In other news, this is the first flygirl post that didn’t read like rich white lady thought catalog. Congrats.