One of my favorite summer memories was going fishing with my mother’s brother. My Uncle Ricky would always tease me when I started to squirm when he scaled and deboned the fish he caught. He was sweet, amazing at martial arts, an Army veteran, and was among the 19.7 million Americans battling drug addiction.  Because of […]

“They want our state…. When folks come here and they want to come to our state, they need to come as citizens of our country and citizens of this commonwealth — not to change the people that we are.” Those are comments Republican Delegate Margaret Ransone made to the Washington Post this week. Her comments […]

Bills to prevent gun violence in Virginia don’t get a vote from all 140 legislators.  That’s because they’re defeated early in committees or subcommittees dominated by Republicans––one of them being State Senator Glen Sturtevant (R-10). He’s part of a cohort of Republicans that does the bidding of the gun lobby and kills commonsense gun violence […]

This month I reached a serious milestone. June 2019 is a month that I’ve been anticipating for quite a while. Guess what the milestone was? Drum roll please.. via GIPHY My Student Loan Debt Is Killing Me I got my student loan debt to under $10k! Now, that’s still a huge chunk of change, but […]

In this blog post, I interviewed Equality Virginia Executive Director James Parrish on the evolution of Pride month and what’s on the horizon of the legislative landscape for Equality Virginia. Equality Virginia is a 30-year-old legislation and policy advocacy organization that advocates on behalf of the 240,000 LGBTQIA individuals living in Virginia. LM: What is […]

It’s been a rough month for everyone who supports people’s right to control their own bodies and make reproductive choices for themselves. With conservatives passing laws in Georgia, Ohio, Alabama, and Missouri that amount to nearly complete bans on abortion in those states, people with uteruses have fewer rights than corpses when it comes to […]

Poor GOP state Senator Amanda Chase is having a rough time of it on Twitter lately. It seems no matter what she tweets, the internet is there to ratio her. Not familiar with the term? Urban Dictionary helpfully defines it as “being revealed as an idiot on twitter by having a high ratio of comments […]