Monday One
Not quite a Sunday Five (its a day late and four links short for that!) but, something like this really needs to be processed on its own anyway. Read this, and then just try to turn around and tell me...
View ArticleThe Visionary Within
Even more than hatred and anger, apathy (in my opinion) is one of the worst concepts this world has seen. Very few people are both so hate-filled and powerful that they can impact the world in any...
View ArticleThree Reasons to Smile
1) In online-activism news the disgustingly inconsiderate and downright dangerous hate site tranny-alter.com has been taken down as a result of an outpouring of bloggers mobilizing to make it happen....
View ArticleUsing my Voice
As a follow up to yesterday’s post about a time when I didn’t manage to stick up for whats right and educate those around me I’d like to talk about a time when I did. A few weeks ago I was sitting...
View ArticleOne Note Project
Check out our new page & help me turn this into something cool! (PS. I know this has been done before in varying forms before, I just figured starting off a chain of happy events might be a fun...
View ArticleMy Love Letter to Feminism
There’s about a million and one things that I want to do with my life at this point in time. I can still feel myself buzzing from the success of the play that I helped to put on. (More on that soon,...
View ArticleBattling Stress
A few nights ago I was sitting in my partner’s room, just unwinding after a horrendously long day full of class, events (I had to help with TWO events within two hours of each other), protest planning...
View ArticleBreaking my Silence
Working as a Rape Crisis Advocate can be frustrating at times. It’s hard to listen to so many heart wrenching stories, before jumping right back into my daily life, pretending like nothing is wrong...
View ArticleDo SOMETHING
Apparently summer time is project time around here; last summer lead to an (overly) ambitious Self Esteem Awareness Month where I attempted to blog every day through out August. This summer I am...
View ArticlePlay Nice!
When I was just a little kid I used to run around the playground at school telling my classmates to play nice (and then running away.) Even though I am nearly twenty now, I often still get the urge to...
View ArticleThis blog is mine to write, and reddit’s to comment on.
Some of the feedback that my last post garnered on reddit has gotten me thinking a lot – but, since reddit doesn’t seem to like me and keeps eating my comments, I’ve decided to make the points I want...
View ArticleSuccessfully Confronting Privilege – Is It Even Possible?
I feel intellectually paralyzed today, unable to write. Part of it is the ongoing coverage of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani [the link has information and a petition you can sign!] an Iranian woman facing...
View ArticleRape Culture, Moore, and Me
I’m not going to do a long post on this, because I am in the midst of moving home for winter break but I just want to publicly voice my support for every single person participating in the #MooreandMe...
View ArticleDear Planned Parenthood,
Crossposted at Persephone! So you probably already heard that late Friday afternoon, the House of Representatives voted to cut all funding from Planned Parenthood. On a practical level, this isn’t so...
View ArticleThree Conferences in Three Weekends!
So I just finished confirming the arrangements & I have a super-exciting announcement to make… Starting next weekend two weekends from now I am going to be launching the (almost) Month of Social...
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