New York

10 Jul 2014

Broke-Ass of the Week: Singer/Songwriter Kendra Morris

Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

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09 Jul 2014

Sweatpants Are All That Fit Me Right Now (and Other Things I Would Like to Tell Bill Collectors)

Just a regular Tuesday night… It may have been a hard 10 years since Mean Girls was released in theaters, where Regina George experienced a cataclysmic fall from the social hierarchy. But it seems now, more than ever, the rules still apply; different scenarios. More money. Same rules. When I

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03 Jul 2014

Broke-Ass of the Week: Best Selling Author Jason Myers

Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

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02 Jul 2014

How to Get Cheap Birth Control if SCOTUS Just Took Yours Away

We all heard it. The Supreme Court ruling on the Hobby Lobby case angered more people than the ending of How I Met Your Mother. The penis wrinkles on the bench favored on the side of the “closely held” corporations.

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02 Jul 2014

Entertaining for the Poor as F*ck: How to Have a Kick-Ass, Broke-Ass Independence Day!

St. Patrick and Mr. De Mayo have fun holidays named after them, but at some point we have to acknowledge that we as a nation are guilty of using cultural appropriation (ie: Miley Cyrus) as a reason to get blitzed on a weekday. Shame on all of you: you need

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01 Jul 2014

A Guide to Fighting Street Harassment: How Bystanders Can Best Intervene on Behalf of Women Being Harassed

Enough is Enough street rally, image courtesy EnoughIsFuckingEnough.com Street harassment in the Bay Area has gotten so bad that women are putting duct tape on their mouths, removing their clothes in public and holding silent protests with signs recounting the ugly and awful remarks male aggressors make to them on

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30 Jun 2014

The Dirty Joke in the Princess Bride that you Never Noticed Before

If  you’re old enough to read this post there’s a good chance that you’ve seen the movie The Princess Bride at least a few times in your life. Me? I’ve probably seen it eleventy-hundred times. It’s really that good. It wasn’t until I saw it a few years ago that

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27 Jun 2014

Do’s and Don’ts for Straight People on Pride Weekend

Pride Weekend is an appointment party on the annual calendar, and inevitably some stroller-pushing breeders will want in on that action. I mean, who wouldn’t, it’s a lot of fun. It’s not that straight people are unwelcome; most Pride events are all about inclusion, plus they’ll be very happy to

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