Food was the only place of solace. Alone, in my apartment, I could soothe myself with food. Food didn’t judge me or demand anything from me. When I ate, I did not have to be anything but myself.
And then I think about how fucked up it is to promote this idea that our truest selves are thin women hiding in our fat bodies like imposters, usurpers, illegitimates.
Weight loss, thinness really, was social currency.
My hands, my fingers quickly slicking with
Winter is more a state of being than a season, in this place. It takes hold for six or seven dark, cruel months. The cold becomes familiar.
We fail you every single time a (famous) man treats a woman badly, without legal, professional, or personal consequence. Over
The unspeakable will be televised.
The less space they take up, the more they matter.
I want to look good. I want to feel good. I want to be beautiful in this body I am in.
You are whom you surround yourself with.
Women do not have short memories. We cannot afford that luxury as our choices dwindle. Politicians
The thing about shame is that there are depths. I have no idea where the bottom of my shame resides.
Playing the Game of Privilege is mental masturbation - it only feels good to those playing the game.
Pathologizing the unlikable in fictional characters is an almost Pavlovian response.
No matter what issues I have with feminism, I am a feminist. I cannot and will not deny the importance and absolute necessity of feminism. Like most people, I am full of contradictions, but I also don...
If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities.
I wish there were viable alternatives for students who would rather be anywhere but in a classroom.
I am tracing the story of my body from when I was a carefree young girl who could trust her body and who felt safe in her body, to the moment when that safety was destroyed, to the aftermath that cont...
I am a bad feminist. I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
But women are the only ones who can get pregnant