Tell Siri you want to kill yourself, mention specific methods of suicide, or ask about suicide assistance, and Siri will bring up the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
suicide
disability rights
To be a disabled child, or a disabled adult who needs supportive care, is to know that your life is literally in the hands of the people you rely on to love and care for you. And those people may well think that murdering you would be doing you a favor.
protest
If I see/hear/encounter/smell/touch one more instance of this “we are all” bull-pucky, I swear on a stack of ice cream that I am going to lose it.
sexism
Men are universal, women are not, and books about women are niche or genre novels, rather than being serious contenders for Next Great American Novel Status.
rape culture
Like a shocking number of rape victims in the United States and around the world, she was intimidated into silence, and she chose to recant her accusation rather than follow through in response to the immense pressure on her to take it back.
s.e. smith in
Issues,
rape culture,
rape,
the justice system,
calling the police,
police,
i despair for society sometimes
Jun 13, 2013 at 4:00pm | 28 comments
makeup
The problem here wasn’t with the makeup, but with who was wearing it.
politics
The up side to a massive surveillance state? FUNNY JOKES ON SOCIAL MEDIA!
teens
She’s not the only young woman speaking out about birth control, body image, and a host of other issues that affect teens, and yet she’s constantly hearing the message that there are no young feminists, and no politically engaged youth.
books
Because you know what, some of us like to sulk in the cabana and curse the bright glowing thing in the sky while we read.
politics
Ellen Sturtz wasn't just rude. She also wasted $500 on a pointless exercise.
sexual assault
Stop me if you've heard this one before: the Senate Armed Services Committee just held a hearing on military sexual assault, and they didn't invite any rape survivors to testify.
domestic abuse
The thought of having to abandon my pets to seek safety is wrenching, and makes me go convulsively hug a cat just because I can.
teen pregnancy
What would a comprehensive, inclusive, radical teen pregnancy awareness, education, and discussion campaign actually look like?
horses
There’s not a lot of self-examination among many of the people who compete at and attend horse shows, because to do so would be to question their own culture.
names
Writing under my initials for a very long time has allowed me to observe the way people relate to a writer on the basis of perceived gender, because people seem to have an urgent, desperate need to slot each other into gender categories.
modeling
We're starting to normalize the appearance of plus-sized models in fashion as just a natural variation of human bodies, rather than something shocking and awful.
breast cancer
For now, all I can do is hang my hopes on the slim percentage that I won’t get breast cancer, knowing that if a tumor develops, it’s not like I can afford to treat that either.
racism
Lucy Liu is perfectly happy naming, and talking about, the elephant in the room: racism is a problem in Hollywood.
sexual assault
The dehumanisation of unconscious people is part of a larger culture that also dehumanises conscious people.
fat
Fat. It’s everywhere. A dangerous predator lurking around corners, ready to jump out when you least expect it.
body image
Are these seriously the depths to which we have descended as a society, that three young women can be turned away from prom for having breasts?
perfume
Let me be blunt: Most people don’t want to smell your stank-ass perfume, okay?
s.e. smith in
Relationships,
perfume,
perfume oil,
this is why we cannot have nice things,
your perfume makes me sick,
I'm a puking pro
May 3, 2013 at 3:00pm | 301 comments
plus size
I’m not used to the “Daily Mail” being positive about larger bodies.
disability
Today is Blogging Against Disablism Day, an event organized to explore ableism/disablism and their larger social impacts worldwide. Disability hate crimes are just one of the many issues faced by the disability community.
