So much testimony is demanded of women, and still, there are those who doubt our stories.
Nostalgia is powerful and that power builds with time; it often reshapes our memories.
Muitos de nós estamos nos aproximando, à espera de que alguém distante agarre nossas mãos e nos lembre de que não vivemos tão solitários quanto tememos.
It’s dangerous to suggest that the targets of oppression are wholly responsible for ending that oppression.
Also understood that I wasn’t being intentionally mean. I was being honest (admittedly, without tact), and I was being human. It is either a blessing or a curse that those are rarely likable qualities...
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
What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgement of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been marginalized, the ways I have suffered.
We want to see more complex, nuanced depictions of what it really means to be whoever we are or were or hope to be. We just want so much. We just need so much.
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 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...
This required negotiating a fine balance, and I am a clumsy person.
This myth is like heels and purses—pretty but designed to SLOW women down.
They require a diagnosis for her unlikability in order to tolerate her. The simplest explanation, of Mavis as human, will not suffice.
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...
There’s nothing easy about what you’re dealing with but you need to face that and step up. Michael
There’s no denying women are doing better than they ever have, but is that really saying much? When you consider what life was like for women before suffrage, before Title IX, before the Equal Pay Act...
There is nothing more desperate and unrequited than the love an unpopular girl nurtures for the cool kids.
There is a happily-ever-after, but the price exacted is terribly high. It is frightening to consider how many women might be willing to pay that price.
There are injustices great and small, and even if we can only fight the small ones, at least we are fighting. Too
The majority of people who are stopped and frisked in New York are black or Latino because these demographics fit our cultural profile of danger. These are the supposed barbarians at the gate, not the...