ACTUALLY as a disabled person, there are a LOT of disabled people including myself who resent “person first” language because it implies our disabilities are somehow “opposed” to our humanity, or make us somehow less human. There are others who prefer terms like “differently abled”; I’m not one of them.

Interracial adoption? Are you seriously saying that is a form of charity? I’m not even sure I can unwrap the layers of that this early in the morning. But I think that stands as a quite good example of the patriarchal attitude that I think is a problem when Americans get involved in global anything. There [...]

It’s necessary because transmen aren’t women.

Totally agree here. I’m a person who teeters at several intersections, and I’ve found myself shouted down, invalidated, and accused of being “the enemy” in some ostensibly feminist spaces recently. As a disabled woman, I have a huge problem with reproductive rights conversations being framed around the support of eugenics. I like to think we’ve [...]

I rock a pretty significant bush 95% of the time. And to be honest, a much larger proportion of partners I have had have preferred bush, and the rest have been mostly indifferent. As for people I have talked to, many say they prefer “trimmed”, to varying degrees. I honestly think pubes are making a [...]