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A Supreme Court decision is the Law of the Land, unless Christian bigots dislike what the court says. The Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, probably doesn't really give a damn who marries whom.  But he's no stranger to what works in Texas politics, and…

The everydayfeminism blog imagines, what if all consent worked the way rape culture assumes sexual consent works? Here's an example: But go -- read the whole darn thing. Men (and yes, it's primarily, almost exclusively men) who take the liberties described in this series of illustrations need…

John Perry Barlow recently tweeted this picture. When I was a kid, I was taught that if I was in any kind of trouble out there, the best sight I could hope to see would be a policeman. But the experience of black kids my age…

This article in Ravishly by Ijeoma Oluo caught my eye, because really, just feeling bad about racist policing is not doing anything about it.  Even writing distressed-sounding social media posts about it isn't quite up to the bar.  So what, what can we do?  I read the article…

Your idea of what caused the Baltimore riots seems to depend pretty heavily on who you are. This Pew Research survey includes a fairly stark breakdown of the causes asserted by black and white respondents.  Note the White-Black difference column. And here is the same question again,…