It’s been a rough year for a lot of people. Politics, women’s issues, LGBTQ issues, religious bigotry, the failing standard of truth in media, the death of net neutrality (shout out to our privacy primer), and so much more. Zainab just wrote about the holiday season, and for me it…
In the second grade, my classmates and I were tasked with sewing our own Christmas stockings. I was a fairly oblivious kid, and somehow coasted through to the age of 7 without ever acknowledging the existence of Christmas. But we worked hard on those stockings, and I was excited when…
Now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s officially Christmas season. I just wanted to give a gentle reminder that Christmas isn’t everyone’s goal. If it is your holiday, that is great. But many of us have our own winter holidays, not always analogous to Christmas, and aren’t in need of a Christmas. Basically,…
So a while back I realized that my Facebook feed had become a little cocoon of news and sites that mirrored only my opinions or at least came close. Following the lead of a couple of good friends, I began to expand the sites I had in my feed to…
I’m never sure how to react on this day, each year. I absolutely want to acknowledge the people who died that day, some heroes and some “just” victims. But this day is a dark day not just for those deaths, but also for the tone that politics took from that…
So the day before the Unite the Right rally, I posted on my Facebook page that I was tired and was going to log off for a bit. It wasn’t just that rally that had worn me down, it was a ton of smaller things leading up to it. For…
It’s already been a whole week (or alternately, it’s only been a week?) since Trump posted his tweet policy update banning trans individuals from serving in the US military in any way. Since then the fervor has died down a bit because Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford wrote a…
There’s another march this weekend, this time for science. That’s fucking ridiculous because it’s science. I get protest marches and marches about upholding traditions like divulging tax returns, but science? We’re now protesting for core Enlightenment values? Actually, that makes a lot of sense for this administration. Next up are probably more of those…
Like any unexpected life changing moment, it took time to accept. The first 48 hours after the diagnosis I didn’t stop crying. Not because I thought our baby was dying or that this was the worst possible news. I was learning to accept a new kind of life than the…
Two weeks ago it was reported that, when asked about the current wave of anti-Semitic crimes sweeping the country, Trump said, “Sometimes it’s the reverse, to make people — or to make others — look bad.” This statement, and what context we have surrounding it, implies that Jews are orchestrating these threats…
So things haven’t really settled down all that much with Trump. He hasn’t changed from candidate Trump to president Trump. He’s still just the same old big D. So I figured now would be as good a time as any, as protest-burnout might be affect some, to take on an…
I am a childfree woman. This means I do not want children. I’ve never wanted children, although for a while in my teens I assumed they were part of my inevitable future because that’s what humans do. As it turns out, I am lucky enough to live at a time…
