Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky. It
Sherman Alexie wrote, There are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe, despite...
She tries to walk not too fast and not too slow. She doesn’t want to attract any attention. She pretends she doesn’t hear the whistles and catcalls and lewd comments.Sometimes she forgets and leaves h...
Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have a...
Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to fo...
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...
Perhaps we expect gay public figures and other prominent queer people to come out, to stand and be counted, so they can do the work we’re unwilling to do to change the world, to carry the burdens we a...
One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do is accept and acknowledge my privilege. It’s an ongoing project.
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.
Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human, to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were. Life happens faster than I can comprehend.
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...
Mr. Peter was sorry for every terrible thing he did to us. Mr. Peter couldn’t resist two beautiful little girls. Mr. Peter wanted us so bad he couldn’t help himself. Mr. Peter was an old man now, coul...
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...
Mine is not a success story. Mine is, simply, a true story.
Look how these people live. Never forget what they choose to deny you. I
Like most people, I’m full of contradictions, but I also don’t want to be treated like shit for being a woman.
Judith Butler asserts that gender is a performance, an unstable identity that forms through how it is performed over and over.
I’ve decided that I will not allow my body to dictate my existence, at least, not entirely. I will not hide from the world.
It’s hard not to feel humorless, as a woman and a feminist, to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you’re not imagining things.
It’s a problem, though, that there’s a right kind of gay, that there are LGBT people who are warmly encouraged to step out of the closet while others who don’t fit certain parameters go largely ignore...