This story is part of Prism’s series on sex positivity and the arts. Read the rest of the series here.
by jazabel jade, exHOTic other, and Miss AuroraBoobRealis
At a time like this, BIPOC women and femmes and our communities deeply need some laughter and joy to help us process the pain of living in America’s sadistic brand of white supremacy. That’s where burlesque comes in.
The bombshell report detailed the president’s large debt and his increased reliance on controversial businesses he’s refused to divest.
“Raise your hand if you pay more taxes than supposed ‘billionaire’ Donald Trump.
Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of 15 years before 2016, The New York Times reported.
The New York Times published a damning report that showed President Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years.
Rhode Island is the smallest state in the U.S., but with a population of just over 1 million people, it is also the the second-most densely populated state. From Woonsocket and Pawtucket, through Providence, Bristol, and Newport, here are a few glimpses of the landscape of Rhode Island and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.This photo story is part of Fifty, a collection of images from each of the United States.
Parenting advice on temper tantrums, in-laws, and positive parenting.
Contrary to popular belief, you can be assertive without being aggressive.
My adopted hometown of Brighton on England’s south coast is best known as a party town. It grew from a fishing village to a chic resort thanks in part to a prince’s desire for a fun place to hang out with his secret wife; more than two centuries later, people still flock here in pursuit of pleasure. The city’s most famous landmarks are a wacky pastiche of an Asian palace, a glitzy pier, and a vast pebble beach backed by flamboyant Regency squares and terraces.
Twenty thousand bees pursue
a Mitsubishi,
their queen trapped inside.For one dollar at a yard sale:
a shoebox diorama of the moon
where the astronauts are built from foil.My mother empties half of her sleeping pills
into Tupperware, slides them to me
from across the table.I should be done now, done with it,
the life I wanted before I wanted
it simple.Olivia refuses to live in a yellow house,
says she’s saving the color
for her forever home. Blood circles the drain.
Trump has raised various ideas in recent months, though his proposals remain much vaguer than during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Kelci Norton, 18, is comforted during protests in Detroit in May, after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. (Sylvia Jarrus)The only constant now is loss. More than 200,000 people are dead from COVID-19. We’ve all lost time, routines, jobs, connections to others. But the grief has not been evenly distributed.
For book reviews, for research, and even for fun.
Isolationism once cleared the way for America’s ascent, making the country prosperous, powerful, and secure. Today, however, the Founders’ admonition against entangling alliances has fallen into disrepute, and the word isolationist itself has become an insult. In the absence of constraints on the nation’s ambition abroad, American grand strategy has fallen prey to overstretch and grown politically insolvent.
Everyone sees what this is: The president using public money to sway voters before an election.
It turned ordinary neighborhoods into tourist destinations, and ordinary people into backdoor innkeepers.
The state’s power brokers are so afraid of the impoverished 1970s that they’re inadvertently bringing them back.
The once-favored ride of stunt performers, tattooed boomers, and cinephiles is now on a road to nowhere.
Top Trump deputies say they can put the plan in place using existing powers. But critics see it as a brazen election year ploy.
The figure, based on a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University, comes just days after the U.S. surpassed 200,000 deaths.
Operation Warp Speed is the administration’s best attempt at fighting coronavirus, experts say, but White House meddling has caused public confidence to plummet.
It is the first known instance of a staffer with regular proximity to the health secretary testing positive for coronavirus.
Updated on September 26, 2020 at 5:21 a.m. ET.When President Donald Trump announced today that Amy Coney Barrett is his nominee for the Supreme Court, he was effectively declaring victory. In 2016, Trump offered a horse trade to American conservatives: In exchange for their votes, he promised to appoint judges who would champion their interests.
I’m now convinced this may be a reason not to be so promiscuous in younger years.
Being a “long-hauler” has changed everything, especially the way I parent.
Apparently they have an open phone policy where either spouse can go through the other’s phone.
“This does have the potential to incite … the metastasizing of social unrest,” said one market strategist.
Critics have argued the Trudeau government lacked preparedness or a sense of urgency before the country was hit by the pandemic’s crises.
The central bank shed more light on its pledge not to raise interest rates until prices begin to rise more rapidly.
