Friends, I used to write a blog called I Am Begging My Mother Not To Read This Blog. And then for whatever reason, I stopped doing that, many years ago. So long ago that the muscle really atrophied and only recently have I started to feel like I wanted to start this kind of Continue reading
I know my last post expressed anger, sorrow, and rage, but somehow, I can t seem to shake the part of my brain that wants to educate instead. So I m going to try, for a moment, to educate in the best way that I can. I ve seen a lot of this argument expressed online, with friends Continue reading
When I started writing this blog, I wrote early posts about stuff like catcalling. Being a feminist. Non-threatening, funny, somewhat sprawly posts that basically were like Hey! Friendly hello! Here s some stuff about Being a Lady™ that you should know! And some interesting things happened. I got to point out that things I experienced in Continue reading
Some people think that you can t function properly while working through a severe, sudden, unexpected bout of depression. Some people, I always say, are crazy! (Haha get it?!? It s funny because Americans are experiencing record levels of depression and everybody s advice about how to fix it is universally bad and unhelpful!) There are a bunch of Continue reading
I listened to an interview the other day with Melba Patillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine, one of the first black students to integrate an all-white school in overtly racist, legally segregated Arkansas in 1957. The interviewer asked her if, when she was 15, she ever thought about what would be different in Continue reading