Bitch Anarchy

A short story by Zora Neale Hurston (from Fire!! Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists  [1926] edited by Wallace Henry Thurman) It was eleven o’clock of a Spring night in Florida. It was Sunday. Any other night, Delia Jones would have been in bed for two hours by this time. But she was a washwoman, and Monday morning…

A 1918 short story by Katherine Mansfield Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and…

An 1893 short story by Kate Chopin As the day was pleasant, Madame Valmondé drove over to L’Abri to see Désirée and the baby. It made her laugh to think of Désirée with a baby. Why, it seemed but yesterday that Désirée was little more than a baby herself; when Monsieur in riding through the…

I never knew that the hurt I experienced during my formative years was sabotaging my adult relationships until I was in my 40s. It did not matter whether the relationships were coworkers, friends, or men I was dating, I always found a way to end things – either by totally ghosting the other person or…

After more than sixty-five years, Emmett Till may finally receive some justice – sort of. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, also known as the Emmett Till bill, has passed in the House. Now we will see if it passes in the Senate. Only 3 bigots voted against the bill, all White Republican men of course.…

On the very last day of Black History Month, the Crown Act – a bill that would have allowed those of us not born with silky, straight locks to wear our hair the way it was meant to be worn – was blocked by Republicans who voted en masse – 188 – not to pass…

Have you noticed how everything Republicans have a hand in causes pain, suffering, and death to thousands – even millions – of people, and they don’t even care? You know why right? Money and power. All that they care about is lining their own pockets whilst their base dies from a virus that Republicans swore…

Russia has invaded Ukraine and thousands upon thousands of refugees – women and children for the most part – are fleeing the country to Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Moldova. Hundreds of people have been killed and hundreds more will die before evil Putin (Trump’s good buddy) is finally stopped – either with a bullet…

It’s debatably still up in the air whether or not a plus-size actor should  always play a plus-size character. The iffy factor, however, didn’t stop showrunner Jenny Klein and fellow producers of upcoming true crime miniseries The Thing About Pam from casting Renée Zellweger as convicted killer Pam Hupp. Side by side, Renée and the Missouri mom of two look nothing…

Republicans want you to believe that straight White men are the victims of extreme prejudice in America. Intelligent, level-headed people know that this is not true, including many White men – though these guys tend to be progressive and definitely not conservative. Christian fundies, like the kind you see on TLC reality shows, typically are…