How To Be a Waitress

Walk in the back door, take a deep breath. Say "Hi" to the guys in the kitchen, clock in, and walk out onto the floor. Only three tables…Good. Walk up to the espresso maker and hit the button that says "double shot." Add a Splenda to it, just for…

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Are You There Margaret? It’s Us, Generation X.

 As we end women's history month I feel compelled to bring up one of the most influential women in America, whose beliefs and compassion for the poor and uneducated have had a direct affect on how we live today: Margaret Sanger.  In 1914, Margaret Sanger launched the magazine The Woman…

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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Straight Alliance
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Straight Alliance

This week Taboo Jive is recommending a Facebook page that has something for everyone. About: “Everyone of every sexuality supporting each other. Equality For All! Not Some! Get the latest news and videos here on LGBT issues.” Mission: “Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Equal Rights. One by…

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Why It Matters To Me

Editors note: Ron Kemp is a blogger @ Enough is Enough and is featured as Wipeout Homophobia on Facebook's 'Guest Writer of the Month' for April, 2012. By Ron Kemp Twelve years old.  I'm on vacation in a little rural city named Portsmouth, VA.  My aunt, with whom I…

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Tyler Clementi: Hate Had Its Way
Tyler Clementi playing violin with the Ridgewood High School Orchestra in 2009.

Tyler Clementi: Hate Had Its Way

“Student found guilty of charges in webcam suicide case” - ZDNet. “Tyler Clementi Case: Dharun Ravi Found Guilty of Hate Crimes, Invasion of Privacy” - Hollywood Gossip.  “Hate-Crimes Conviction: Ex-Rutgers Student Faces Up to 10 Years in Closely Watched Bias Intimidation Case” - Wall Street Journal. “Dharun Ravi Found…

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A Defense of Modern Art

By: Keith Bipp Modern art has received some of the most brutal criticisms, mostly from those who were never really interested in art to begin with. This is mostly prompted out of a misunderstanding of what artist like Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Pablo Picasso, and Jackson Pollack, Andy…

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I have HAD it with this mother*$#@ porn on this mother#@#* plane!

Meet (awesomely named) Dawn Hawkins. She is executive director of Morality in Media, which (according to its website) is “the leading national organization opposing pornography and indecency through public education and the application of the law.” As Dawn recounts in the video below, last month, while she was flying on Delta…

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