Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or...
Sometimes, when students are doing group work, I sneak a look at my own phone like I am in a cone of invisibility. I am part of the problem.
Sometimes, people who, I think, mean well like to tell me I am not fat. They will say things like, Don’t say that about yourself, because they understand fat as something shameful, something insulting...
Smoking felt good and always gave me a light buzz. Smoking also made me feel cool when I knew I was very, very uncool.
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...
Rosin suggests that feminists are holding on to a grudge, that feminists are willfully holding on to this notion of patriarchal dominance as if we would be unable to function if we weren’t suffering....
Revenge Body, where participants get revenge on someone who has wronged them by losing weight and getting into shape.
Respectability politics suggest that there's a way for us to all be model (read: like white) citizens. We can always be better, but will we ever be ideal? Do we even want to be ideal, or is there a wa...
Rape humor is designed to remind women that they are still not quite equal.
Racial profiling is nothing more than a delusion born of our belief that we can profile danger. We want to believe we can predict who will do the next terrible thing. We want to believe we can keep ou...
Qui se ressemble s'assemble [you are whom you surround yourself with]
Privilege is a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor. There is racial privilege, gender (and identity) privilege, heterosexual privilege, economic privilege, ablebodied...
Perhaps, then, unlikable characters, the ones who are the most human, are also the ones who are the most alive.
Perhaps, then, unlikable characters, the ones who are the most human, are also the ones who are the most alive. Perhaps this intimacy makes us uncomfortable because we don’t dare be so alive.
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
Part of the reason relationships and friendships can be so difficult for me is because there is a part of me that thinks I have to get things just right. I have to say the right things and do the righ...
Oprah goes on to talk about how weight problems are never just weight problems, that there is often more to the story. This is often indeed true, but self-actualization, the catharsis of confronting d...
On my more difficult days, I’m not sure what’s more of a pain in my ass—being black or being a woman. I’m happy to be both of these things, but the world keeps intervening. There are all kinds of infu...
O my friend searching for an absurdity necessary to train the self to be tolerant . . . do not reconcile with anything except for this obscure reason. Do not regret a war that ripened you just as Augu...
Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective.