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I am a 46-year-old black woman, feminist, sexual libertarian, sociologist savant, poet, author, editor, political junkie, and American Studies scholar. I am not your typical chick.
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Diaries published: 27 (19 days since last diary on Thu Jul 22, 2021 at 04:56 PM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: 'Mass Psychosis' May Follow Cheney's Ouster, 642 comments, 728 recommends
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Now we have an effort in front of the Supreme Court to declare that there is no right to abortion granted by the Constitution. The original ruling in Roe rests upon the foundational belief that the Constitution itself springs from a penumbral right to...
by novapsyche
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on Thu Jul 22, 2021 at 04:56 PM PDT
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This is what is pissing me off at this point: the obscenity of the right-wing attempt to equate racism with the efforts to combat it. It is so perverse that I instinctively want to walk away from the discussion altogether. Of course, to do so is to...
by novapsyche
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on Mon Jul 05, 2021 at 04:55 PM PDT
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For some time now, many of us have been wondering whether or not Trump believed the put-on that he was telegraphing to everyone else. He’s the greatest con-man since Barnum, right? He is just blowing smoke, right? These inquiries have been floating...
by novapsyche
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on Sun Jun 06, 2021 at 09:09 PM PDT
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About ten days ago, I posted a piece about Liz Cheney that I thought was topical and hopefully interesting. I worked on it with excitement, and when I read some of the feedback, I found that some people appreciated my attempts at forewarning what may...
by novapsyche
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on Tue May 18, 2021 at 04:22 PM PDT
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Color me naive, but when I first heard that Rep. Liz Cheney was in trouble over in the Republican Party, I had an instinctual sense of alarm. �It wasn’t based on anything with regards to any ...
by novapsyche
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on Sat May 08, 2021 at 08:30 PM PDT
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The events this past weekend concerning the Republican Party seem to have disturbed some folks. The brouhaha with Liz Cheney, so far this week, has taken center stage, but the fact that Mitt Romney got loudly and soundly booed by his own state...
by novapsyche
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on Tue May 04, 2021 at 05:58 PM PDT
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- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded to a comprehensive report describing years of sexual harassment, abuse, and retaliation aimed at the women who worked around him with a gaslighting and farcical statement not even worth a response. Cuomo insisted...366 comments 268 Recs
- Just Another Super Healthy Week Spent Arguing Whether or Not Science is Real and Mob Violence is BadThe American Right will not, dear reader, be made to eat their peas. Peas are tyranny. Sure, peas aren’t honestly that bad, and eating just a few peas could save your life, and if everybody just ate their fucking peas for a little while we could, as a...110 comments 236 Recs
- In � WAYR? , I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…I been a busy week, so here is my ...31 comments 18 Recs
- Local GOP officials aren’t the only ones who seem to openly use racial slurs—some Democratic officials need to be held accountable too. A state lawmaker in Delaware apologized Tuesday after sending an email that used a racist, sexist slur against Asian...32 comments 72 Recs
- Well friends, things’re more or less exactly the same as when last we met, which is to say, grease-fire-in-the-bath-salts-factory-behind-the-clown-college-level insane. So grab a raincoat and some galoshes, let’s wade through this sewage together,...177 comments 370 Recs
- Let’s talk about tips. Beef tips, to be exact. Nowadays, when people think of beef tips, they think of sirloin tip. But that wasn’t always the case. Beef tips refer to the extra bits of meat ...53 comments 26 Recs
- Okay! I see we’re at the “if they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population” portion of our modern Republican/Dickensian nightmare. So the “pro-life,” anti-evolution party is now openly declaring that the only kind of...506 comments 218 Recs
- Wow, it’s really finished! You may want to bookmark this diary, or you can find all the index chapters by searching for the #wfdindex tag. Type of Dish / Main Ingredient ...57 comments 24 Recs
- I don’t know about y’all, but the first post-Turd Reich Independence Day felt pretty dang sweet to this masked drunkard. The simple absence of cheap, banana republic military spectacles was a welcome departure, for a start. Ultimately, I suppose I...86 comments 217 Recs
- In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books… I am finished reading: Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion- One of the things that I don’t...48 comments 21 Recs
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