You beat me to it.

First of all, I would like to thank you for sharing the deeply personal parts this essay. Secondly, thank you for writing about this issue; it’s personal for a lot people (myself included), but it’s vitally important for those folks who don’t have accurate information about HIV/AIDS and what this administration is…

This is gonna get sooooo damn messy & I’m petty AF and not at all ashamed to admit I’m here for the whole damn thing.

As the mother of two grown kiddos, one who worked as a congressional intern & the other who’s attending a big ole DC conference this spring, imma give him an 11. For restraint, for acknowledging that a side eye was NEEDED but an epic, slap upside the head kinda side eye would’ve likely just backfired.

I’ve interviewed the families of murder victims, car crashes & those who died in combat. Each time it was a privilege, not a right. I worked with those folks so they felt comfortable talking with me. Ms. Garner’s family should only speak with journalists THEY choose. No one gets a free pass to their grief.

“...but we live in a country where a large number of people would give fellatio to the 2nd Amendment (and you know they’d swallow if they could).”

Oh FFS, South Carolina.

THEY didn’t take shit from Louis; his is entirely self-inflicted wound & I hope it follows him for the rest of his life. He should be as haunted by his behavior as the women he victimized.

I don’t have any real words to convey my feelings. I hope her children will come to know her legacy & to understand what she gave to this fight. I have two kiddos; they’re grown. My wish is for Ms. Garner’s children to find, at some future point, peace in knowing how diligently and tirelessly she worked to make their…

I’m printing this out to reread all year.

We only ever got the little packets & I’m pretty sure Mom skimped on the sugar. (There were 10 of us kids; I think she skimped for a variety of reasons!!)

I have too many friends who initiated the movement to bring HIV into the open, who died waiting on the damn government to get its shit together (extreme side eye to The Red Cross, you willfully ignorant assholes), who stormed the gates and did the work and I cannot fathom this turn of events. It’s outside my ability…

I’d like to argue about ANY of your points, because I want desperately to believe in something better but dammit, I can’t. Extremely well written (as per usual) and enlightening (same). If you’ll excuse me now, I’m going to go pickle my liver...

I really, genuinely NEEDED this right now.

I’m an atheist, it feels really disingenuous to say I’m praying for Ms. Garner & her family. I’m genuinely hoping for a medical miracle here, in case any deities are listening...

I had bariatric surgery 13 years ago. It was MY choice due to family history & all kinds of research. The women ‘friends’ I lost during that transition period in my life taught me A LOT. I’m a size 14, healthy, happy with MY choice to have surgery (it’s not a cure all nor is it a choice I advocate for anyone other…

Are we related on some microscopic, Kool Aid level?!?

Important question: the Kool Aid that came in tiny packets & required the addition of one’s own sugar, or the kind in the plastic jar that cam pre-sweetened? 

Damn now I have that Satan inspired jingle in my head! *shakes fists*

I’m not gonna lie, I about choked laughing at “watercress sandwiches”.