I knew too much about hurt, but I didn’t know how much more a girl could suffer until I did.
His mother was yet another indignity he was forced to endure.
Assuming Sandberg's advice is completely useless for working-class women is just as shortsighted as claiming her advice needs to be completely applicable to all women. And let’s be frank: if Sandberg...
To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance, and women writers can’t fix that ignorance no matter what kind of books we write or how those books are marketed. This
There is no collective slavery revenge fantasy among black people, but I am certain, if there were one, it would not be about white people, not at all.
There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books about certain topics, that require this special women’s fiction designation, part...
Just one more reminder that the rules are always different for girls, no matter who they are and no matter what they do.
I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.
I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding the actua...
This is where we should start focusing this conversation: how men (as readers, critics, and editors) can start to bear the responsibility for becoming better, broader readers.
Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forget. They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds. P...
It is strange, and perhaps sad, that medical doctors came up with this terminology when they are charged with first doing no harm.
Girl children are not safe in a world where there are men. They need to learn to be strong. There
Bad feminism seems the only way I can both embrace myself as a feminist and be myself, so I write.
The next morning, I had a dry headache and my mouth was a horrible, lonely place.
I no longer want to believe these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them.
Feminism, as of late, has suffered from a certain guilt by association because we conflate feminism with women who advocate feminism as part of their personal brand. When these figureheads say what we...
Cooking reminds me that I am capable of taking care of myself and worthy of taking care of and nourishing myself.
Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths.
Representations of a woman’s strength overlook the cost of that strength, where it rises from, and how it is called upon when needed most. The