We’ve seen what the hoarding of privilege has done, and the results are shameful.
We cannot separate violence in fiction from violence in the world no matter how hard we try.
We are having inexplicable conversations about birth control, conversations where women must justify why they are taking birth control, conversations where a congressional hearing on birth control inc...
There is no freedom in any circumstance where the body is legislated, none at all.
There are times when I wish finding community was as simple as entering some personal information and letting an algorithm show me where I belong. And
Their suggestions are, on one level, reasonable, mostly grounded in common sense, but these leaders traffic in respectability politics—the idea that if black (or other marginalized) people simply beha...
The ways we are taught to be a girl start when you are very young. When you are being taught, you don't know about the points. When you are being taught to be a girl, the lessons are simply accepted-t...
That is, of course, if we continued to delude ourselves that our bodies were our biggest problem.
Sometimes she forgets and leaves her house in a skirt or a tank top because it’s a warm day and she wants to feel warm air on her bare skin. Before long, she remembers.
Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than just books.
Over and over again we tell you it is acceptable for men—famous, infamous, or not at all famous—to abuse women. We look the other way. We make excuses. We reward these men for their bad behavior. We t...
My husband is not a kind man and with him, I am not a good person. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and he, Caleb, is kneeling over me, his fingers tracing my neck. I place my hands over...
My heart received even less consideration than my body, so I tried to lock it away but never quite succeeded.
My favorite definition of feminist is one offered by Su, an Australian woman who, when interviewed for Kathy Bail’s 1996 anthology DIY Feminism, said feminists are just women who don’t want to be trea...
In my more generous moments, I tried to believe the locals were using anger to mask their fear of living in a dying town in a changing world.
In Gone Girl, Amy talks about the temptation of being the woman a man wants, but ultimately she doesn't give in to the temptation to be the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn't ever...
I step away as I notice a group of young, angry men walking toward us. I doubt that there is any particular reason for their anger. It is the anger that most men feel these days; they are angry about...
I believe it is so important for women to feel comfortable in their bodies, without wanting to change every single thing about their bodies to find that comfort.
Even at that young age, I understood that to be fat was to be undesirable to men, to be beneath their contempt, and I already knew too much about their contempt. This is what most girls are taught—tha...
Audre Lorde once stated, I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womanness, and therefore my struggles...