Except Dolezal based her claim to black identity in cultural immersion, whereas the primary criticism of Boyden is that he’s claiming First Nations identity based on a very tenuous genetic argument without any of the lived experience. (Part of the backlash against Dolezal, of course, was how much lived experience she…

A lot of the confusion surrounding this conversation seems to stem from unresolved questions about “Indian” or indigenous as a racial identity versus tribal or First Nations political membership and the extent to which those identity categories should or do overlap. Many people get confused by the fact that many…

Theoretically, it’s the exact opposite (or maybe complement?) to the Dolezal debacle, since that controversy involved claiming a persecuted identity by virtue of cultural immersion in the absence of any genetic connection, while Boyden is facing criticism for claiming a marginalized identity based on genetics without…

I mean, I’m right there with you, but I’m just distracted by how bad they are. I mean, that straw doesn’t even look like it’s in her nose, and I’m dizzy just imagining the lung power it would take to get powder up a straw that long. Meanwhile, the heroin stock photos feature needle gauges I wouldn’t subject an…

You know, when I saw the term “Pizzagate” referenced casually in the comments on another article today, I assumed Trump had unleashed a PR firestorm by reigniting the age-old Chicago- vs. New York-style pizza debate or something similar. This is just...wow.

Came down here to say the exact same thing.

Depends what you like. “Kindred” (about a black woman living in the twentieth century who is randomly transported back to the nineteenth and has to save her slave-owning great grandfather to guarantee her own existence) is more historical fiction than sci-fi, but it’s kind of nice because it’s a standalone novel as…

At the same time, though, I feel like that’s precisely why this sort of conversation *is* so often addressed to upper white middle class women and why they perceive it as so revolutionary—because historically speaking, this is precisely the demographic of women who engaged in this sort of sex the least and whose…

So the ass end of Texas is...the West “end”? Referring to the border that stretches for well over 500 miles? Not disputing that most of West Texas is unappealing, but deeply confused by your phrasing.

The problem is we keep underestimating how much of a stake straight, cis, white women have in the patriarchy, which has always promised them certain, if circumscribed, social and economic privilege. I see this as evidence of women who are already leading relatively privileged lives choosing the safety of the status…

I played this and my dog flipped her shit.