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Here’s a little history of Latinidad in NOLA. Here’s a short history of the Mardi Gras Indians. This older version is pretty fun as well! The Jackamo lines have been translated in a couple different ways; my favorite is the West African translation here.

In a recent article, Irin Carmon at Salon.com explores the fact that Catholic health care providers have really expanded business in the last few years, so if Obamacare doesn’t require them to perform abortions to save a mother’s life, some women won’t have that option at all. If the only hospital near you is Catholic, or if you can’t be moved from a Catholic hospital [...]

Once again, I’m Maria, here to fill your monitors with adorableness in advance of your busy, grown up weekend. The thing I like about this particular bit of choreography is that even though there’s only one girl, she’s doing the “girl role” of sexy lady, AND the part where they do a bit of twosie dancework, all the other little boys pair off with one [...]

SIGNAL BOOST: This comic talks about albinism in Tanzania. The Longest War (gah, IDK about that name, I think black people, LGBTQ identified people, and Native people might disagree. Just a bit!) hasn’t yet ended. On consent and kink. Fortunately, there’s an app for that. On ablism and sexism and mental/emotional wellbeing and online harassment. But men are ENTITLED to like what they like, am I [...]

A high school senior publicly comes out to his classmates. Note the deluge of applause at the end. The above is part of a campaign to eliminate racist terms for people from common use in Spanish.

I interrupt the serious content of this site to bring you BABY PANDAS!!!!!!!!