This recent calling out of sexual assault has been a long time coming. And it's good. It's like cutting out tumors: it's messy, and it's complicated and it is going to hurt. But it's necessary. And we'll all be healthier for it. And it sucks — and some of our heroes will be taken down, and we will discover bad things about people we like. And sometimes, even people we love.
Dec 07, 2017
- Published in Equal rights, Wisdom
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“I understand that they [women] feel like that is their body. I feel like it is a separate — what I call them is, is you’re a ‘host.’"
Feb 13, 2017
- Published in Equal rights
I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump to conclusions about each other.
Sep 26, 2016
- Published in Equal rights, Justice, Politics, Race & Ethnicity
Open to the idea that – for a period yet to be determined – there should be no financing from abroad for the construction of mosques.
Jul 29, 2016
- Published in Equal rights, Foreign Leaders, Foreign Policy, religion, Terrorism, War & Peace
We live off this image as an open and tolerant place. Homophobic violence has hit crisis levels, and it’s getting worse.
Jul 05, 2016
- Published in Bisexual, Equal rights, Foreign Leaders, Gay, Gender, Lesbian, Queer, Sex & Sexuality, Transgender, Violence
We’ve had years now of campaigning and advocacy around the diversity problem … [but] the only thing that’s gotten better with these companies are their talking points.
Feb 28, 2016
- Published in Community, Equal rights, Leadership, Power & Privilege, Race & Ethnicity
You’re damn right Hollywood is racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It’s like, ‘We like you, Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa.’
Feb 28, 2016
- Published in Ambition & Fame, Dance, Equal rights, Ethics, History, Music & Film, Pop-Culture, Power & Privilege, Race & Ethnicity, Radio & television
Hate speech against migrants is an important part of what we now have no tolerance for on Facebook."
Feb 26, 2016
- Published in Communication & Rhetoric, Community, Equal rights, Ethics, Immigration, Pop-Culture, Power & Privilege, Race & Ethnicity, Technology
Legislators have gone out of their way to stigmatize and marginalize transgender North Carolinians by pushing ugly and fundamentally untrue stereotypes that are based on fear and ignorance and not supported by the experiences of more than 200 cities with these protections.
Mar 24, 2016
- Published in Bisexual, Equal rights, Ethics, Gay, Gender, Human RIghts, Lesbian, Partisanship, Policy, Queer, Sex & Sexuality, Transgender
We just need something tangible to make us believe that politicians care about us. The wards in Flint haven’t seen any of this federal aid, but we do all the tax paying and all the dying.
Feb 03, 2016