Trump’s Shutdown isn’t a bug, it’s a feature
Twitter is full of fast food jokes while food stamp money runs out
‘Leaning In’ might actually cause more harm than good
Researchers set out to test what (if anything) Lean In added to women’s empowerment, and at what cost.
2018: The Year We Survived
I want to be awake the first seconds of 2019 alive with the hope that maybe this upcoming year won’t be as fucking awful and infuriating and interminable as this year was.
“No offense, but…”
How are you supposed to learn how to not be “unintentionally” racist or sexist or whatever if people never have the right to tell you that you hurt them?
White privilege sucks for everyone. WTF to do about it.
It’s upsetting to suddenly go from the altruist or the protagonist to be thrust under the icy salt water. Every place you thought you were strong begins to sting. You realize at once that you were never truly innocent.
When a Leader Dies
To those who are angry at any mention of the problematic past of individual people and of our country– good. It should tell you something about yourself and about our society as a whole.
Things I’ve been criticized for
Follow along and check off all the “helpful” things you’ve been told about yourself
Baraboo is not the exception. It’s the rule.
In small town and rural America, is it enough to just survive, try and fly under the radar, and hope one day to escape?
America: The Reckoning
Our self-concept as individuals and Americans is a kind of rounding up; an agglomeration of knowledge and experience and perspective and, well, laziness. That’s how minds work.
What the Jews in your life want you to know
We know you often tolerate us, without knowing us. But tolerance isn’t enough. Not in this world.