More often than not, I feel hopeless. I give up. I cannot overcome myself, my body, these hundreds of pounds shrouding my body. It is easier, I think, to be miserable, to remain mired in self-loathing...
Movies, more often than not, tell the stories of men as if men’s stories are the only stories that matter. When women are involved, they are sidekicks, the romantic interests, the afterthoughts. Rarel...
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.
Too many women are afraid to be labeled feminists, afraid to stand up and say, Yes, I am a feminist, for fear of what that label means, for fear of how to live up to it, for fear of feminism as someth...
Want nothing but the best for your friends because when your friends are happy and successful, it’s probably going to be easier for you to be happy.
This is no way to live but this is how I live.
We have all manner of music glorifying the degradation of women, and damnit, that music is catchy so I often find myself singing along as my very being is diminished. Singers like Robin Thicke know we...
Audre Lorde once stated, I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womanness, and therefore my struggles...
The past is written on my body. I carry it every single day. The past sometimes feels like it might kill me.
The older I get the less the world makes sense. I
The longer The Biggest Loser has been on the air, however, the more the show has disturbed me.
We live in a culture where athletes are revered, and overlooking terrible, criminal behavior is the price we are seemingly willing to pay for our reverence. Amen.
We tend to believe that accusations of privilege imply we have it easy, which we resent because life is hard for nearly everyone.
Shame is a difficult thing. People certainly try to shame me for being fat. When I am walking down the street, men lean out of their car windows and shout vulgar things at me about my body, how they s...
Excuses
People like you always choose to absolve yourselves. You are complicit even if you do not actively contribute to the problem because you do nothing to solve it. I
[W]omen, more often than not, are the recipient of God's intentions and must also bear the burdens of these intentions.
You know, Fabienne, being American is feeling pretty good right now. This would have never happened to us in Miami, or anywhere in the States and don’t you forget that. Fabienne
Rather than solve the real problems the United States is facing, some politicians, mostly conservative, have decided to try to solve the female problem by creating a smoke screen, reintroducing aborti...
Sometimes, when you least expect it, you become the girl in the woods. You lose your name because another one is forced on you. You think you are alone until you find books about girls like you. Salva...
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