Anger without action leads to riots.
I know this world. I live in it too. There's no shelter or safety or escape from the cruel stares and comments, the too-small seats, the too-small everything for your too-big body.
Excuses
Am being open about who I am and who I was and where I have faltered and who I would like to become.
You don’t necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don’t have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privile...
When I’m around the right people, I feel strong and powerful and sexy.
We tend to believe that accusations of privilege imply we have it easy, which we resent because life is hard for nearly everyone.
We should be able to say, This is my truth, and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist. Because at some point, doe...
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 have spent countless hours focused on manners, education, the perils of drugs. We teach them about stranger-danger and making good choices. But recently I’ve become aware that we must speak to our...
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.
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...
There are many ways we have surrendered privacy in the information age. We willingly disclose what we’ve eaten for breakfast, where we spent last night and with whom, and all manner of trivial informa...
There are injustices great and small, and even if we can only fight the small ones, at least we are fighting.
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, though, the more I realize how fairy tales demand a great deal from the woman.
The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive. These
The brochure made everything look bucolic and inviting, so I knew, instantly, not to trust such propaganda. My
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...
That’s a common tactic of abusers—isolating their victims—but we’re supposed to think the way Christian isolates Ana in luxury is romantic. A prison is still a prison even when the sheets are 1200 thr...