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.
Su, an Australian woman who, when interviewed for Kathy Bail’s 1996 anthology DIY Feminism, said feminists are just women who don’t want to be treated like shit.
Thank you to Law & Order: SVU for always being on television so I can have something familiar in the background as I write.
The brochure made everything look bucolic and inviting, so I knew, instantly, not to trust such propaganda. My
The freedom of being able to eat, so extravagantly and without limit, offered me the only true pleasure I knew in high school.
The girl-woman singer died in her flat, alone in bed. Too many people said, It was to be expected, because we knew this girl who was a woman was really a girl. We knew she had problems, and she did no...
The idea of a secret that will be revealed always results in one of two scenarios: death and destruction, or self-discovery and recovery beyond our wildest dreams of unification. And in the greatest o...
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...
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 past is written on my body.
The problem is, cultural critics talk about privilege with such alarming frequency and in such empty ways, we have diluted the word’s meaning. When people wield the word privilege, it tends to fall on...
The story of my life is wanting, hungering, for what I cannot have or, perhaps, wanting what I dare not allow myself to have. Many
The thing is, I am not at all sure that feminism has ever suggested women can have it all. This notion of being able to have it all is always misattributed to feminism when really, it’s human nature t...
The ways in which I am my mother’s daughter are infinite.
The word comes from the Latin word , to hunt. I find that cruel, to name something for that end which comes to pass.
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 years and years of my life I can’t remember a thing about. A family member will say, Remember the time [insert significant family moment], and I stare blankly, with no recollection of these...
There would always be ransoms for any dignity or peace.
This world and its unwillingness to accept and accommodate me are the problem. But I suspect it is more likely that I can change before this culture and its attitudes toward fat people will change.
Trayvon Martin is neither the first nor the last young black man who will be murdered because of the color of his skin. If there is such a thing as justice for a young man whose life was taken too soo...
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