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27 Oct 2016

What it’s Like Canvassing for Hillary Clinton in Nevada

“EXCUSE ME!”

I tense up as the tall gray-haired man wearing grandpa glasses yells to grab our attention and then stands a little too close for comfort. I was with 3 other women outside a Starbucks in Reno wearing Hillary Clinton t-shirts as we got ready to knocks on doors and talk to voters. Outside of my Bay Area bubble, I realize I’m assuming random people (well, white men at least) are Trump supporters until they prove otherwise.

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21 Oct 2016

5 Things You Can Do with Your Feminine Rage

Do you often wake up each morning quivering with Feminine Rage? I know I do. For all you women, men, neithers, in-betweens, children, teens and furries who find yourself feeling Feminine Rage to a degree that you have to make it a proper noun, there is hope. 1. Let Your

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20 Oct 2016

The Final Prez Debate: A Vegas Threesome

Three is the magic number. The third Presidential debate was everything Goldilocks was looking for, and I don’t mean Trump. Although I’m pretty sure he thinks it was. All disjointed delusional billionaires aside, this debate was perfect for anyone who had seen all three or just this one. The first

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20 Oct 2016

Why Everyone Should Work in a Restaurant

Everyone should work in a restaurant at least once. Ask any server, bartender, barista, cook, dishwasher, buser, greeter, and they’ll agree. It’s a conversation I often have with other people in the restaurant industry. This conversation is half bitching about customers (sorry not sorry) and half enumerating all the ways that working in a restaurant makes you a better person.

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19 Oct 2016

We wanna send you a free copy of Barbara Schoichet’s ‘Don’t Think Twice…’

A witty, earthy, vividly written account of twenty-one days of thrills, danger, and healing, DON’T THINK TWICE is not only about Barbara Schoichet’s quixotic quest to reactivate her inner compass and navigate back to her life, but also about what can happen to anyone whose formerly stable life has been

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19 Oct 2016

Erykah Badu’s School and Addressing Rape Culture

Guest Post by barakanoel I doubt Erykah remembers meeting me. I was dreaming. Badu always had me feeling like a dream. Well, well, well. They said Hip Hop was dead before we even heard about Bambaataa. Before I ever memorized a rhyme. Always tryna take down our Black heroes. Whitney. Cosby. Kelly. Martin,

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14 Oct 2016

Trump Fortune-Telling Machine Placed at Trump Tower

Remember the movie Big with Tom Hanks? When he puts a coin into an unusual antique arcade fortune teller machine called ‘Zoltar Speaks’, and makes a wish to be “big”. It dispenses a card stating “Your wish is granted”…

Well, anonymous artists in New York City put Donald Trump in one of those fortune telling machines and got impersonator Anthony Atamanuik to do his voice. The one liners are funny, if not sadly close to actual Trump quotes.

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08 Oct 2016

How Do You Know If It’s Sexual Assault?

Locker room talk. Flirting. Masculinity. Aggression. Compliments. Boys will be boys. In the US and abroad, we’ve developed language to describe what we see, how we feel, and to describe situations. As a natural course in society, often we say things we don’t mean or confuse the purpose of that

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