khalisaraet
Khalisa Rae
khalisaraet
Senior Writer at Jezebel. Culture journalist, feminist, and author.

I’ve been seeing the period swimsuits in insta and might get one for my kid for when she goes to camp. Anyone have experience with these swimsuits? Read more

I find it hard enough to use normal tampons, let alone a cup. I just can’t reach all the way down there easily. I have to put tampons in with the tips of my fingers. Read more

As an outside observer, it seems like there will always be an unbridgeable chasm between cis and trans women.

Not suggesting trans women shouldn’t be treated as women legally, just menstruation must be such a fundamental difference of experience.

This won’t be the case between trans men and cis men, to the extent that Read more

Love my menstrual cup. I got a bidet hose installed next to my toilet too so it’s so easy to dump, wash and shove back up there. Wash again. I never really need lube but I'm...ahem....roomy, so that makes it easier  Would never consider going back to pads and languishing all day and night in a pool of my own sopping Read more

Period underwear can be great as back-up in some contexts but just FYI sometimes when you’re using a menstrual cup and it overflows it comes out in a big WHOOSH and no period underwear can contain that. Happened to me multiple times, including once on a airplane. Read more

How about; large city-based states stop paying more than there fair share into the federal budget, so that red states actually have to pull themselves up by their boot straps, and stop getting the blue state welfare handout. And, actually start making them places where people get a fair shake, and are places people Read more

If you’re a youth in the US who isn’t a white male, what do you have to look forward to? Backsliding rights, a climate crisis, and an economy that will do nothing for you. Crackdown and strict laws never prevent crime. They might punish it, but they won’t prevent it. The only thing that prevents crime is giving people Read more

“Youth activists are speaking out on social media about the sustainability of revoking teen downtown activity, instead of providing fun, contained alternatives in the park area like block parties, anti-violence programs, and movies in the park.” Read more

Truly impressive that Chicago found a mayor worse than the one who participated in the cover-up of an actual murder. Read more

I dare anyone to look at these photos and deny the beauty of DARK skin.  Woman is a goddess... Read more

Holy Water and scripture exorcism? Wow, you youngsters got off easy. Read more

I wish I had sex positive parents. But I didn’t, and now I am attempting to work through my issues.
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I’m in the grays so this won’t matter but I feel the need to tell. Read more

Rihanna is doing exactly what she wants to do. She is a billionaire who prior to pregnancy, proudly posted herself rolling blunts and filling ppls cups on Insta regularly. She enjoys hoodrat shit. I think this is what ppl love her for. Beauty and her F what you think attitude. She chose A$AP and she’s happy with that Read more

The Taylor Swift song is perfect for a teen movie. Although, Jenny Han seems to be recycling the same trope as her last book/movie, a mixed Asian girl struggles between two white boys. Unless I'm wrong?  Read more

It’s this hot new thing called acting, dipshit.
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I’m not keen on this season as it seems to have missed some of the heart that made the first season great. The main reason I decided to stop watching the show is because she is now sober, but as a sober, privileged, white woman, she saw it fit to rape a stressed, drunk, and alone black man. I find it odd that you Read more

A lot can happen between now and when Charles dies. Divorce, death, England cancelled having King or Queen any or all of those things could happen in the next 25 years. So let's not call her the future Queen just yet. Read more

You have to factor in the exorbitant cost of travel too.  Read more