If rape culture had a downtown, it would smell like Axe body spray and that perfume they put on tampons to make your vagina smell like laundry detergent.
I wondered why she thought she could reveal that casual racism in mixed company. I wondered, as I often do about people, what she truly thinks about me.
I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person. This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the...
I wanted to tear the skin from her face so I could see the blood of a woman who would stand by and do nothing while another woman endured what was being done to me. The
I wanted that kind of steady, true love for myself, and I wanted a relationship where I could be independent but loved and looked after at the same time.
I want to be able to hold the why in my hands, to dissect it or tear it apart or burn it and read the ashes even though I am afraid of what I will do with what I see there.
I try to keep my feminism simple. I know feminism is complex and evolving and flawed. I know feminism will not and cannot fix everything. I believe in equal opportunities for women and men. I believe...
I love food, but it is so difficult to enjoy food. It is so difficult to believe I am allowed to enjoy food. Mostly, food is a constant reminder of my body, my lack of willpower, my biggest flaws.
I have a membership to Planet Fitness, though I have never visited the local facility. Basically, I donate $19.99 a month to their corporate existence and the idea that I can walk into a Planet Fitnes...
I hate when people say something is not their job or that something isn't possible. We all say these things, sure, but some people actually believe they don't have to work beyond what is written in th...
I felt so utterly alone and because I no longer need the layers of protection I built around myself but pulling those layers back is harder than I could have ever imagined.
I didn’t say anything on social media, though relatives tried to tag me in supportive status updates, which I did my best to untag myself from. I didn’t want to be a part of their mourning. I didn’t w...
I am not promiscuous with my warmth, but when I share it, my warmth can be as hot as the sun. 74 Part of the reason relationships and friendships can be so difficult for me
I am learning to care less what other people think. I am learning that the measure of my happiness is not weight loss but, rather, feeling more comfortable in my body.
I also have to live with being the type of woman who might—or probably always will—feel guilty that she never told this man she’s trans.
Há, no entanto, uma ansiedade em ser você mesmo. Existe a pergunta que assombra, um e se? que está sempre no ar. E se o que sou nunca for suficiente? E se eu nunca for certa o suficiente para alguém?
How do we reconcile the imperfections of feminism with all the good it can do? In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed. For wathever re...
How are we going to make a thirteen-year-old pop singer popular? I ask, briefly steering the conversation toward work. Tate is silent for a few moments. Finally she says, Old white ladies who perm the...
He has told me, I am only telling you what no one else will, but of course, he is telling me what the world is always telling me, everywhere I go.
He has sometimes likened his style of writing to that of a medic performing a post-mortem on a raped child—whose job is to analyse the injuries, not to give vent to the rage that is felt. —SUSIE MACKE...