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“Do you want a Coke or anything?” Justin Sullivan / Staff I mean, “best” is a relative term, right? You can read the whole monstrosity here. You know, if you feel like torturing yourself. If you don’t want to suffer, here are the, um, highlights. I’m posting them two days behind the interview because that’s […]
Campaigning for an anti-choice politician? What the fuck, Bernie? Joe Raedle / Getty Bernie Sanders is in trouble with major reproductive rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America after campaigning for an anti-choice Democrat, Heath Mello. This isn’t the first time Sanders’ dedication to reproductive rights has been called into question. It happened during his 2016 campaign […]
The White House reached a new level of GROTESQUELY HORRIBLE yesterday when members of the top 10 most terrible people in the world converged in the White House: Sarah Palin, Kid Rock, and (ugh) Ted Nugent. They were invited by the #1 most terrible person in the world, President Donald Trump, and was joined by […]
Remember Mary Numair? She’s the local hero who shut down anti-abortion protestors outside Planned Parenthood on NE MLK by hollering about yeast infections back in 2015. Now she’s at it again, this time with a storytelling show, Storytell Your Abortion, featuring abortion stories from comedians Amber Clenaghen, Wendy Weiss, Alayna Becker, Julia Ramos, and Rochelle […]
NO PUPPET! YOU’RE THE PUPPET! Joe Mahoney / Getty As you’ll recall, the Adult Toddler in Chief LOVED big rallies when he was running for office. But now that he’s president and he’s a target of protest rather than racism-fueled adulation? He’s reversed course in the wake of the very well attended Women’s March, the […]
I used to work at CD Baby and heard a lot of crazy stories from the musicians who would sell their music through the site. One of the craziest was from a Michael Jackson superfan who had his own dreams of breaking into the music biz. During Jackson’s 2005 trial for pedophilia, this guy was […]
The law allows states to pull funding for preventive care services provided by organizations like Planned Parenthood. It’s primed to gut basic health care for America’s poorest women. Kevin Hagen / Getty In case you’re somehow already over the “Mother of All Bombs” news, things are fucked on the domestic policy side today too. Donald […]
GIRLS BY MARK SCHAFER / HBO; FRIENDS BY NBC; APPLE EMOJIS. Robin DiAngelo spends more time than your average white female thinking about race. Professionally, DiAngelo teaches classes on social justice at the University of Washington’s School of Social Work and travels around the state giving diversity workshops. She laughs about how much the topic […]
The Handmaid’s Tale is typically categorized as speculative fiction, but it’s very much rooted in the realities of life in countries where sexism informs governance. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Between the Hulu adaptation and renewed interest in feminist activism, I’ve been glad to see readers flocking to Margaret Atwood’s enthralling classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, about a […]
What the woman who invented the term “white fragility” thinks about Trump.
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