Plastic straws were invented to fill a need: a way for disabled people to be able to actually fucking eat and drink safely. The adoption of an accessibility device by ableds does not mean that it should be banned due to usage by those ableds. It is unforgivable that we have told disabled people their […]

The Texas abortion ban is a fucking atrocity, and while there are certainly already legal challenges underway, there are several regional abortion funds that can use the support much more urgently. Several of them can be found here: “So what do we do now?” A better question is, “What you are prepared to do?” Because […]

“Dehumanization” is a word that gets tossed around a lot without people stopping to think about what it means. The problem isn’t actually that murderous white men get thought of as whole people who are more than their worst moments, even unthinkably awful moments like murdering their own children as part of a paranoid fantasy. […]

You don’t have to pick one, and neither do they. This probably deserves its own post in detail, but the idea that “no gods, no masters” means people can’t continue to experience religion seems as ridiculous as claiming it means no one could seek out an expert to apprentice themselves to (or a dominatrix to […]

This is going to seem like a stretch, but try to stick with it. At first glance, the idea seems ridiculous that it’s any kind of revolutionary act to make sure you’re using your bathroom breaks at a leisurely pace, posting memes from the Internet or watching till the end of a video. However, as […]

Tumblr @dilfgirlI’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: it’s more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It’s performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to […]

Asexuality is part of the queer community. Unfortunately, one of the many things it shares with the rest of the queer community is our tendency to make whiteness default and ignore the ways that intersectionality complicates and stacks additional challenges on BIPOC queer people. There is a strain of gatekeeping who will say that asexual […]

Rightfully, liberals find it very easy to notice (and laugh at) conservatives when they utilize slave imagery or yellow stars to compare themselves to persecuted Jewish people before and during the Shoah — particularly for such things as haircuts or mask-wearing during a deadly pandemic. But the desire to cosplay as victims of one sort […]

There is a 30-year gap in the life expectancies of Black and white Chicagoans depending on their ZIP code. On average, residents of the Streeterville neighborhood, which is 73% white, live to be 90 years old. Nine miles south, the residents of Englewood, which is nearly 95% Black, have a life expectancy of 60. Journalist […]

You don’t believe in a god. Neat. That wasn’t really the problem, though, was it? Imagine Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins weighing in on a social issue, or how YouTube atheists feel about feminism, intersectionality, or structural racism. If you’ve never heard the term “cultural Christian”, that’s the sort of thing we’re talking about. They […]