I believe it is so important for women to feel comfortable in their bodies, without wanting to change every single thing about their bodies to find that comfort.
Life, apparently, requires a trigger warning.This is the uncomfortable truth: everything is a trigger for someone. There are things you cannot tell just by looking at someone.We all have history. You...
We live in a strange and terrible time for women. There are days when I think it has always been a strange and terrible time to be a woman. Womanhood feels more strange and terrible now because progre...
We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we’ll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, This is my truth, a...
My amusement with the Fifty Shades series only goes so far. The books are, essentially, a detailed primer for how to successfully engage in a controlling, abusive relationship. The trilogy represents...
These terms themselves are somewhat horrifying. Obese is an unpleasant word from the Latin obesus, meaning having eaten until fat, which is, in a literal sense, fair enough. But when people use the wo...
My family’s concern became a constant chorus of nagging, always well intended, but mostly a reminder of how I was a failure in the most basic of my human responsibilities—maintaining my body.
I knew where danger really lurked—in the woods behind well-manicured exclusive suburban neighborhoods, at the hands of good boys from good families.
It is untenable to go through life as an exposed wound. No matter how well intended, trigger warnings will not stanch the bleeding; trigger warnings will not harden into scabs over your wounds.
The United States as we know it was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, the idea that some rights are so sacrosanct not even a government can take them away. Of course, this country’s foun...
Women’s fiction is often considered a more intimate brand of storytelling that doesn’t tackle the big issues found in men’s fiction.
My other wardrobe, the one that dominates most of my closet, is full of the clothes I don’t have the courage to wear.
Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates. Most of their fiction is grounded in domestic...
Não queira nada que não seja o melhor para seus amigos, porque, quando eles são felizes e bem-sucedidos, provavelmente se tornará mais fácil para você ser feliz também.
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...
In all seriousness, Scrabble was invented by a man named Alfred Mosher Butts.
When you succeed early at an endeavor, you convince yourself you will easily replicate that success. Ask child actors.
Trigger warnings aren’t meant for those of us who don’t believe in them, just like the Bible wasn’t written for atheists. Trigger warnings are designed for the people who need and believe in that safe...
So much testimony is demanded of women, and still, there are those who doubt our stories.
When people wield the word privilege, it tends to fall on deaf ears because we hear that word so damn much it has become white noise. One
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