I know other countries have better parental leave than the US but are there any countries that have taxpayer-funded retreat centers and 6 months of paid leave after you’ve been sexually assaulted

Anora director Sean Baker never credited Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor as writers for Tangerine angelfoodmag.com/romance-labor

my Roman Empire is that in two weeks we’ll have a blood red moon eclipse on Ides of March Eve

Timothée Chalamet in his most challenging role yet — a melting stick of butter

my most evil landlord was a celebrity cupcake pastry chef

Elon having college-age kids on DOGE is so much like how the cult I grew up in, the "Moonies" mostly recruited on college campuses. Young & impressionable, they don't yet have a wealth of career experience to compare this job to. So they'll do their best to prove themselves without question.

Pretty Woman 2: Julia Roberts and Richard Gere buy Joann Fabrics to save it from private equity destruction, then sell it to the workers for $1

Posting this from months ago because we DO have homegrown experience with autocratic regimes in this country. In nearly half this country during the first 6 decades of the 20th century Black people lived under systems of cruelty, voter suppression, hate, state violence & corruption. Ask them!

Me last summer: “I don’t feel well.” Doctor: “Are you in pain?” Me: “I don’t know. What is pain? I’m in discomfort. A lot of discomfort.” [Doctor orders labs] Doctor: “Are you sure you’re not in pain because your kidneys are murdering you rn”

my Roman Empire is that in two weeks we’ll have a blood red moon eclipse on Ides of March Eve

My migraines were under control until I was sexually assaulted a month ago. Now I start each day unable to see any light without vomiting so that’s neat

My new favorite way to celebrate a friend getting citizenship is to host a party for them at the @teslatakedown.com protest

The play I’m writing about human trafficking is not a musical but it has some very funny busking scenes

I just got an ad from my bank to pay my taxes with a credit card they want to sell me

I have a very niche audio engineering problem that will get me thrown in a Scottish dungeon if I can’t solve it

going to a US citizenship ceremony rn feels a bit like running into a burning building but Fahrenheit 451 was my favorite book in middle school so 🤷‍♀️

LA County gave people just 18 days to apply for assistance after the fires. I know trafficking survivors who lost their homes and businesses and are scrambling just to survive

My friend told me that my failure inspires them. I’m beginning to question whether this person is my friend

my trafficker is one of their confidential informants 🥴

the person who sexually assaulted me a month ago finally took a break from harassing me so that’s nice

inside you there are two hockey teams

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

I wish I could have been sexually assaulted after I’d finished filing my taxes because it’s making it really hard to concentrate on anything lol

Ah yes, farmers, famously the least depressed demographic. I fear what he’s actually describing is forced labor and internment camps

When I was a teenager I performed a reverse strip tease on the same stage as Jinkx Monsoon where I seductively put on more and more layers of clothing until I was wearing 5 coats and fell over, drenched in sweat. For some reason, my career of dressing like a sexy Michelin Man never took off

You know why the Black Panthers were so feared by the fascist establishment? Because they served free breakfast among other very tangible things. May every good thing we create and work toward be as tangible and powerful as free hot breakfast

When you’ve been sexually assaulted by multiple family members, it’s a kind of trauma that is wholly different. I’m not saying it’s worse, but please don’t tell me that incestuous sexual assault is similar to date rape. I feel genetically cursed. My family and I should not exist

Being autistic preserved me and kept me safe and alive as a kid being tortured by my trafficker/dad — but as an adult, being autistic is making nearly every aspect of my life impossible

I keep wishing I could schedule when violence or sexual assaults have occurred in my life, but then I remember that there’s never a good time to “schedule” an assault. Ugh, the attempted grasps for control and order is one of PTSD’s weirder symptoms lol

One thing about me is I don’t love being sexually assaulted on the day a rapist is inaugurated president

Before Trump fired CFPB Director Rohit Chopra last week, Chopra was working to improve policies for trafficking survivors who’ve had their identity stolen by traffickers—a very common financial crime that bars trafficking survivors from even renting an apartment after they escape, as happened to me

To the two documentarians who just followed me with their drone, recording me as I cried in an alleyway about being assaulted on Monday, fuck you and your exploitative film

Happy birthday Sister Angela Davis. Born on January 26, 1944.

My alma mater is using me to fundraise, touting me as a star alumnus or something. I feel weird about it because my college experience was awful. And I still haven’t been able to pay off my student loans. Although I’d be somewhat ok with them profiting off me if they offered me a free doctorate 🤷‍♀️

One thing I want younger people to know is that sexual violence doesn’t stop just because you’ve grown older. When I was a young kid, I naively hoped predators would eventually stop targeting me once I was 40

6. Food deserts didn’t materialize for no reason. Something happened. That something was a specific federal policy change in the 1980s — the Federal Trade Commission stopped enforcing the Robinson-Patman Act, a key antitrust law designed to ensure robust competition in retailing.

Working the morning after a sexual assault is always fun. The show must go on 🥴

The last time I was here in the California State Capitol, I was an intern in middle school during the Clinton Impeachment, bullied relentlessly and called Monica Lewinsky because 11 yr olds thought “intern” meant [redacted] — I’m glad Monica and I survived the bullying

Me: “This rental car’s transmission is terrible” Rental Car: “Have you tried driving without the emergency brake on?”

It will never get easy, speaking about human trafficking to government officials in a city where I was trafficked and homeless as a kid

One could say that Jen Agg’s irreverent restaurant memoir is actually the premier book about good restaurant bathroom design www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/535581...

This is a fascinating video looking into the economic impacts of mass refugee migration to Sweden 2015. Really worth watching!

The man who trafficked my niece last year won’t stop harassing and stalking me. I’m so tired

With the TikTok ban, what’s next? Is Congress gonna tell Nintendo to ban Luigi from all Super Mario games in the US lolz

this… seems like as good a time as any to point out that every adoption book in my library’s children’s collection, with the exception of Colin Kaepernick’s, is written either by adopters or from the adopters’ point of view. 🥚

I don’t know Grimes or even like her music anymore, but no one says absolutely bizarre things like this unless you and your children are stuck in an unfathomably abusive relationship with a very powerful person

It’s always so weird when an editor tells you your draft is biased, and then completely oblivious to their own hypocrisy describes their own bias 🤦‍♀️ Me: “The sky is blue” Editor: “No. That’s biased because I hate the color blue”

odd… i put “taiwanese american” (in chinese) in my xiaohongshu rednote bio and they just… deleted it, i guess? lol

I paid the deposit on my play’s venue oh my god this is really happening

Just a reminder, cops regularly engage in sex acts with sex workers and then turn around and arrest the sex workers. reason.com/2024/11/13/t...