I wrote about fake clinics and their predatory advertising for Rabble.
I wrote a piece for Rabble on how you should not respond to indigenous people voicing their experiences of racism, and I am very pleased with it, if I do say so myself.
Former Power Ranger Jessica Rey is really worried about women dressing like sluts, negating their personhood, not buying her "modest" swimsuit line.
Pretty sure the conspiracy here is not that Pamela Wallin is a deceitful, useless politician (yawn) but that she is actually the Kitty Pryde of the Senate, which explains why everyone is like "WELL WE DIDN'T SEE HER COME IN BUT THERE'S NO WAY TO KNOW WITH THAT ONE."
Getting a little necessarily tautological, Jon Entine for Slate points out that scientists are the best sources of scientific information, not, for instance, anecdotal stories in popular media.
Ann Friedman replies to the universal reaction to The Opt-Out Generation Wants Back In: Why did all these women marry selfish jerks? THE ANSWER IS DEPRESSING.
Everyone on Orange is the New Black is great-- except Jason Biggs and maybe Taryn Manning-- but Laverne Cox as Sophia is especially great, and her incredibly eloquent thoughts on gender and identity and the patriarchy in this interview are spectacular. BOOM.
Ross Gay in The Sun Magazine has some very eloquent and sobering thoughts on racism and law enforcement.
Cultural anthropologist/journalist Sarah Kendzior on grad school.
Always good to remember when you are thinking of opting out of any flawed cultural system, whether it's the workforce or public schools or the electoral system, that carefree and chosen independence is a privilege, and as with all forms of privilege, there's no point applauding people who choose to revel in it.
Important.