For so long I’ve never talked about this. I suppose we should keep our shames to ourselves, but I’m sick of this shame. Silence hasn’t worked out that well. Or maybe this is someone else’s shame and I...
Fifty Shades trilogy that has piqued the popular imagination. The books are erotic, amusing in their absurdity, and disturbing in their cultural implications about just how much trouble Prince Charmin...
Everything was out of my control and I love control, so all my trigger points were being pressed at the exact same time.
Every time I watch a yogurt commercial I think, my god, I want to be that happy. I really do.
Even though he had no strength left, he was not gentle. She fell off the bed onto the damp floor. The next morning, Dean was gone. He took nothing with him but the mold spores growing in his lungs. If...
Even now, you have packs of men following you, willing to make you their strange god.
Estou sempre me atendo à esperança do amanhã.
Disagreement, however, is not anger. Pointing out the many ways in which misogyny persists and harms women is not anger. Conceding the idea that anger is an inappropriate reaction to the injustice wom...
But the pain of a tattoo is something to which you have to surrender because once you’ve started, you cannot really go back or you’ll be left with something not only permanent but unfinished. I enjoy...
Attending boarding school is how upper-middle-class girls run away, to be sure.
And now, she knew her husband had lied to her. So many years, following him to so many places, and he had repaid her with such staggering deceit.
Already that semester, the university had been steeped in controversy after students at a freshman week welcome event had been reported chanting: We like ’em young! Y is for your sister, O is for oh s...
5B. If you and your friend(s) are in the same field and you can collaborate or help each other, do this without shame. It’s not your fault your friends are awesome. Men invented nepotism and practical...
11. If four people are dining, split the check evenly four ways. We are adults now. We don’t need to add up what each person had anymore. If you’re high rolling, just treat everyone and rotate who tre...
No one wants to hear fat-girl stories of taking up too much space and still finding nowhere to fit. People prefer the stories of the too-skinny girls who starve themselves and exercise too much and ar...
Likability is a very elaborate lie, a performance, a code of conduct dictating the proper way to be.
Do not understand the unspoken rules of trigger warnings. I cannot write the way I want to write and consider using trigger warnings. I would second-guess myself, temper the intensity of what I have t...
When you’re overweight, your body becomes a matter of public record in many respects. Your body is constantly and prominently on display. People project assumed narratives onto your body and are not a...
When she grew tired, she crawled into her empty bed, lay on her side, traced the slight indentation where her ex-husband used to sleep. This is my life, she said to the empty room. I am grateful. Then...
When a black person behaves in a way that doesn’t fit the dominant cultural ideal of how a black person should be, there is all kinds of trouble. The authenticity of his or her blackness is immediatel...