Damn The Man.
A man has never told me he likes me. Like is more interesting than love.
Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that h...
Sheltered. I knew nothing about anything. I didn’t know I could suffer or the breadth and scope of what suffering could be. I didn’t know that I could give voice to my suffering when I did suffer. I d...
It’s pretty easy to frame an argument convincingly by being selective in the data presented.
All too often, critical acclaim for black films is built upon the altar of black suffering or subjugation.
[W]omen, more often than not, are the recipient of God's intentions and must also bear the burdens of these intentions.
When it comes to fat, there has to be a reason. We need to be able to trace the genealogy of obesity. Without that genealogy, we are simply mystified. People need an explanation for how a person can l...
What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgement of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.
We must look to how we can best support the least among us, not spend all our time blindly revering and trying to mimic the greatest without demanding systemic change.
We are having inexplicable conversations about birth control, conversations where women must justify why they are taking birth control, conversations where a congressional hearing on birth control inc...
This is a show about unruly bodies that must be disciplined by any means necessary, so that through that discipline, the obese might become more acceptable members of society.
There are times when I wish finding community was as simple as entering some personal information and letting an algorithm show me where I belong. And
Their suggestions are, on one level, reasonable, mostly grounded in common sense, but these leaders traffic in respectability politics—the idea that if black (or other marginalized) people simply beha...
That was the first time I realized that weight loss, thinness really, was social currency.
Thank you to Law & Order: SVU for always being on television so I can have something familiar in the background as I write.
Revenge Body, where participants get revenge on someone who has wronged them by losing weight and getting into shape.
Rape humor is designed to remind women that they are still not quite equal.
Over and over again we tell you it is acceptable for men—famous, infamous, or not at all famous—to abuse women. We look the other way. We make excuses. We reward these men for their bad behavior. We t...
Oftentimes, a likable character is simply designed as such to show that he or she is one who knows how to play by the rules and cares to be seen as playing by the rules.