I use a lot of different words at different times to identify myself, my gender, and my sexuality. Sometimes I use queer, or gay, or lesbian, or androgynous, or femme, or gender-non-conforming. I usually identify as cisgendered, as I am mostly comfortable living as and being perceived as the gender commonly associated with the sex [...]

THANK YOU for calling this out. I JUST read the story and was horrified at the flagrant disrespect the writer treats her with because of her identities. I am glad the author got the pronouns right and used her preferred name, but the otherwise prurient and voyeuristic treatment of her gender, sexuality, and line of [...]

The “Shawnee County District Attorney’s office” didn’t make that decision, because offices don’t make decisions. People made decisions. And the Shawnee County District Attorney is *SURPRISE* a man(!) named Chadwick J. Taylor . He is responsible for this decision. He could have decided to decriminalize drugs, certain immigration violations, or other minor offenses that would have actually [...]

I too am annoyed at the loud accolades for Steve Jobs as a departed True American Hero. Did he really change the world, or just give it a firm push in the problematic direction it was already heading? It breaks my heart that his passing has overshadowed that of Fred Shuttlesworth and Wangari Maathai, two [...]