Women do not have short memories. We cannot afford that luxury as our choices dwindle. Politicians
We fail you every single time a (famous) man treats a woman badly, without legal, professional, or personal consequence. Over
The thing about shame is that there are depths. I have no idea where the bottom of my shame resides.
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...
Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am committed to the issues important to the feminist movement.
If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities.
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.
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...
Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the wor...
We hold all people to unspoken rules about who and how they should be, how they should think, and what the should say. We say we hate stereotypes but take issue when people deviate from those stereoty...
We all have the capacity to do hurtful things, but we differ from one another in terms of scale-how much we can hurt others, how far we will go to make a statement about our beliefs, how remorseful we...
There is, I must admit, something very satisfying about making things from scratch, to know every dish in a meal was made by your own hands. As a lazy person, I'm a fan of premade things, but it was a...
Qui tacet consentire videtur [silence gives consent]
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.
One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is that all you need is your imagination. It doesn't matter who you are, you can write. Your looks, especi...
Often, when I read the news, I have to make sure I am not, in fact, reading The Onion.
Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths.
We don’t carefully talk about rape. We live in a strange and terrible time for women. There are days when I think it has always been a strange and terrible time to be a woman.