Focusing on the number or gender of individuals raising children distracts us from the reality that patriarchal power structures and unequal social institutions are what really make things disadvantageous for children.
Raise your virtual hands if you’ve got an iPhone.
Bam! Season 2 has begun. This episode is called “The Quickening”, maybe for how quickly time has flown by since the end of last season. Kidding! It felt like forever and I wanted to die.
This week, the New York Times wants to talk about your lipstick and your self-esteem and I want to talk about how they are missing the point when it comes to the debate about women wearing makeup.
Topics include snow removal in Montreal, homesteading, faux-survivalism, Honey Boo-Boo, sexual violence in India, temps, Cambodia, AIDS, and so much more!
Girl Scout Cookie Locator. Need I explain more?
Meet the first of our 2014 calendar girls! Cynthia will warm your icy winter heart with giant, delicious flowers and her sunny/sexy good looks.
12. Do your goddamned laundry.
The comment award winners are bringing the sass in the new year!
The exhaustive list of legends lost in 2012 includes many American artists and scientists, as well as one Costa Rican you’ve probably never heard of (but will be glad you did).
And the fight for LGBT rights in the Deep South goes on.
Laura’s Team Pick: I’m not talking about the Beatles song. I’m riding high because I just can’t stop playing this game.
Bank of America discriminated against a lesbian in couple in Florida. Instead of just settling for a huge sum of money like Americans in the private sector normally do when faced with legal action, HUD asked for a relatively small sum of money ($7,500) and actual policy changes.
Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Ellie Kemper, Kay Cannon, The Hunger Games, The Hobbit…and some dude’s dad getting a puppy.
Maybe there are possibilities beyond the mortgage and the SUV and the Big Oil Company. Maybe you’ll walk along past where the sidewalk ends and discover those possibilities for yourself.
The writers I like tend to be women who live, or who have lived, in New York, and who write about girls, growing up, and what it’s like to be a human being in this world.
You guys, Apartment Therapy’s January Cure starts today and I am in there (much like swimwear). Do it with me!
A state in America has once again tried to eff things up for a same-sex couple!
Fashion inspiration from the far corners of the internet.
Should Chuck Hagel be Defense Secretary? Who cares! Go stick your nose back in that book if you ever want to be happy, little miss.