Podcast: It’s Impossible To Have A Kid And A Job In This Pandemic
“Am I supposed to choose my livelihood and paying my bills and our mortgage, or am I supposed to choose whether my kid needs to take sixth grade this year?”
Podcast: Jenny Slate On Her New Movie, Leaving “Big Mouth,” And Laughing In These Weird Times
“I looked around my life and I could see very clearly where my reasoning was flawed and racist... And it felt to me it's not enough to be posting or to be protesting. What can I do? And so that's what was up for me.”
Podcast: Drug Overdoses Are Spiking As The Coronavirus Pandemic Continues
“With the social distancing, with isolation, people are taking these drugs mostly on their own. With that comes less of a chance to resuscitate."
Podcast: Why Companies Are Unfriending Facebook
"They want real change. They want substantive change. And what we know so far is that the small changes Facebook has made don’t seem to be enough.”
Maybe Think Twice Before Shaming Someone Not Wearing A Face Mask
"Shaming people does not have the effect we want it to have. ... It doesn’t make people adopt those behaviors, and it actually drives them underground and makes people afraid to disclose what they’re doing."
We Can’t Just Pretend These TV Shows Never Used Blackface
“As we learn to be more anti-racist, I think it’s important to acknowledge where we haven’t been.”
DC Isn’t A State — But It Might Become One Sooner Than You Think
“It really wasn’t that long ago that I think most people thought of it as a very fringe issue, so the fact that it even got as many Democratic cosponsors as it did before it passed is a massive historic deal.”
Stonewall Was The Spark. The Trans Rights Movement Keeps The Fire Going.
“Pride was a celebration of our rage more than anything. It was a riot.”
Her Boyfriend Wants To Keep It Easy To Dump Her — Should She Ditch Him First?
"My boyfriend is not into marriage... He wants it to be easy when he decides to leave me or end our relationship.”
WTF Is Up With All These Fireworks?!
"People’s reasons for doing this aren’t going to be the same anywhere, but I think it’s safe to say that there are factors of protest and solidarity at play, in addition to just wanting to have a little bit of human joy."
NASCAR Is Trying To Confront Racism. It Has To Reckon With Its Past First.
“NASCAR isn’t itself racist, but there are an awful lot of racists who like NASCAR.”
The Attorney General Tried To Replace A Federal Prosecutor And Things Got Weird Fast
“It all lasted long enough for Democrats in Congress to say, ‘We want to look into this and find out what the attorney general is doing and on whose authority.’”
It’s Juneteenth And We Are Celebrating Black Excellence
“Not all of our history is in the history books.”
Tan And Bobby From “Queer Eye” Share How They’re Thinking About Pride This Year
“Our community should be finishing out Pride Month by marching right alongside with Black Lives Matter — because if it wasn’t for people of color, if it wasn’t for Black trans women starting the fight for equality, starting that riot at Stonewall, we wouldn't be marching in a parade.”
A Historic LGBTQ Supreme Court Case and The Man Who Started It All
"When I read those words, 'an employer that terminates based on sexual orientation and gender identity' — I tell you, I looked at my partner and I said, 'We did this!'"
How The Cops Became An Army
"We can trace a lot of it back to the 1968 presidential campaign, where Richard Nixon was trying to appeal to white, middle-class people and play to their fears of Black crime in the cities."
August Is When The Real Economic Pain Begins
"The US economy right now is like a jumbo jet that's in a steady glide after both its engines flamed out. In about six weeks, it will likely crash into the side of a mountain."
What Protesters Mean When They Say “Defund The Police”
“In movement politics, there's no specific leader to say ‘this is what we are behind,’ and so all of these people have different definitions of the same term."
She Asked CrossFit’s CEO About George Floyd. Then Things Got Really Weird.
“The fact that it went to this whole conspiracy theory side was honestly scary to me."
Sorry, But Watching “The Help” Isn’t Helping Racial Justice
“If your goal is to learn more about racial struggles in America, it doesn’t make a whole ton of sense to watch a movie like The Help, which is written by white people.”