Even from a young age I understood that when a girl is unlikable, a girl is a problem.
During my twenties, my personal life was the hottest mess. The hottest. It will never be that messy again because I’ve grown up and I finally give enough of a damn about myself to avoid burning myself...
Christian får tillfälle att visa Ana vem som bestämmer, så att säga, i en väldigt dramatisk scen där han hugger tag i hennes handleder och leder in henne i sitt sovrum för att vederbörligen deflorera...
Buying into the notion of not that bad made me incredibly hard on myself for not getting over it fast enough as the years passed and I was still carrying so much hurt, so many memories. Buying into th...
Better is not good enough, and it’s a shame that anyone would be willing to settle for so little.
At night, I have to face myself and all the ways I have failed.
As with Inglourious Basterds using World War II, Tarantino once again managed to find a traumatic cultural experience of a marginalized people that has little to do with his own history, and used that...
Anytime I remember how I once disavowed feminism, I am ashamed of my ignorance.
Adoro estar com alguém infinitamente interessante porque somos tão diferentes. Querer pertencer a pessoas, ou a uma delas, não significa encontrar no espelho uma imagem de si mesmo.
Was interested in the discourse around rape culture because the phrase is used often, but rarely do people engage with what it actually means. What is it like to live in a culture where it often seems...
Though I didn’t believe everything I learned, it was important to know such ideas, such truths, were out there.
Subsequently passed a bill requiring a regular ultrasound, in a bit of bait-and-switch
Stories and daydreaming. Sports were merely a distraction keeping me from what I really wanted to do.
More ambitious and focused because we’ve never had a choice. We’ve had to fight to vote, to work outside the home, to work in environments free of sexual harassment, to attend the universities of our...
Writing bridges many differences. Kindness bridges many differences too, and so does a love of One Tree Hill or Lost or beautiful books or terrible movies.
Why is this show being held to the higher standard when there are so many television shows that have long ignored race and class or have flagrantly transgressed in these areas?There are so many terrib...
When we were together, he’d tell me what he wanted to do to me. He wasn’t asking permission. I was not an unwilling participant. I was not a willing participant. I felt nothing one way or the other. I...
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.
When it’s hot, I sweat profusely, mostly from my head, and then I feel self-conscious and find myself constantly wiping the sweat from my face. Rivulets of sweat spring forth between my breasts and po...
When I read, I could forget. I could be anywhere in the world except in the eighth grade, lonely and holding tightly to my secret. I often say that reading and writing saved my life. I mean that quite...