Rebekah Kuschmider

Rebekah Kuschmider

Bio

Rebekah Kuschmider is a DC area writer with a background in non-profit management and advocacy. Her work has been seen at Babble, Scary Mommy, Huffington Post, The Mid, Redbook online, and The Broad Side. She is the creator of the blog Stay at Home Pundit and is a contributor to the upcoming book Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox (an anthology, SheWrites Press, Nov. 2015). You can follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Rebekah Kuschmider Articles

You're going to need patience, and probably a singular focus.

#RavsRadar: Don't Let Trump Turn You Into A Directionless Heap Of Despair

The next few months are going to feel like drinking from a firehose of bad political news. Just today, my email is pinging away with alerts about all the executive orders that Trump seems to have signed expressly to make me, Rebekah Kuschmider, lose my mind. I keep feeling jolts of adrenaline, and I reach for my phone to email or call or Tweet or SOMETHING to release my endless rage.

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"remember that the lives of women are as real as your own."

Ask A Feminist: Can I Be A Feminist If I'm A Man?

Finally, and this is very very important because it’s how feminism might go viral among men, you have to remain a feminist even when no women are around. That means, when you’re in a group of all guys and someone say something sexist as fuck, instead of laughing, you have to say “Dude. That was sexist as fuck.”

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Here Are Some Manatees Getting It On. You're Welcome.

The manatees were engaged in a little mutual oral pleasure — or, as the kids call it, 69. Way to go, manatees!

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Meet Thesis Couture: The Comfortable Stiletto 

Heels hurt. They just do. But there may be hope, yet.

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Image Credit: Beyonce/HBO via Vox

Poor Rachael Ray Is Definitely Not Becky With The Good Hair

In the midst of this firestorm was poor Rachael Ray, who has never been linked to JayZ in any way. The only thing she did was have a name similar to Rachel Roy, so she’s feeling the sting. Lemons and bees keep appearing in her comments sections. Hopefully, her signature humor will rule the day and she’ll invent a lemon-honey dessert called Becky Bars to show us she’s not mad.

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Paul Ryan & House representatives passed the AHcA, a "moral monstrosity" in the words of Nancy Pelosi. (Image Credit: Flickr/Gage Skidmore)

How & Why To Fight The Health Care Bill Republicans Just Passed

Paul Ryan and 216 other Republican representatives (but no Democrats, FYI) voted to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which is an attempt to unmake everything that the Affordable Act (Obamacare, if you’re a nasty woman or bad hombre) did to make health insurance more accessible, more comprehensive, and less expensive.

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Just when you thought the Trump administration couldn't get any more ludicrous... (Image Credit: Flickr/Gage Skidmore)

#RavsRadar: On Kellyanne Conway & Secret Cameras Under Cover... As Microwaves

So, remember a couple weeks ago when President Trump lost his mind on Twitter and started

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"This year’s contraceptive bounty is so big that tabloids are already calling Rio the raunchiest Olympics ever." Image: flickr.com

The IOC Has Ordered A Truly Staggering Number Of Condoms For The Rio Olympic Games

If the preparations for the athletes are any indication, the Olympic Village may be one sexy spot!

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Stuck at work because of... polar bear posse. That happened. (Image Credit: Think Stock)

Russian Scientists Trapped By Hungry Polar Bears. For Reals.

There are a lot of legitimate reasons to get stuck at work. Last minute conference calls. Emergency orders coming in that need fulfillment.

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