A man has never told me he likes me. Like is more interesting than love.
Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that h...
My hands, my fingers quickly slicking with
Am not easy to love but I am well loved. I try to love well in return.
Women’s fiction is often considered a more intimate brand of storytelling that doesn’t tackle the big issues found in men’s fiction.
When women respond negatively to misogynistic or rape humor, they are sensitive and branded as feminist, a word that has, as of late, become a catchall term for woman who does not tolerate bullshit.
We need to end the system where it is only white men who decide when a woman--in any position, privileged or not--is deserving of power and agency.
We must look to how we can best support the least among us, not spend all our time blindly revering and trying to mimic the greatest without demanding systemic change.
We are, after all, supposed to be one nation indivisible. Only if we act as such, might we begin to truly effect change.
This is a show about unruly bodies that must be disciplined by any means necessary, so that through that discipline, the obese might become more acceptable members of society.
They wanted to break me. It was not personal. I was not broken. This
There was nothing you could do but what you did. Do you hear me? This
The mother kills one child to feed twelve, and one child to feed eleven, and one child to feed ten until she is left with but one child, whom she also slaughters because she too hungers. Finally, she...
The less space they take up, the more they matter.
That was the first time I realized that weight loss, thinness really, was social currency.
Thank you to Law & Order: SVU for always being on television so I can have something familiar in the background as I write.
Sorrow allows us a freedom happiness does not.
She got on the treadmill, started running. Bianca’s muscles stretched away from her bones and she fell into a comfortable gait.
Privilege is a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor. There is racial privilege, gender (and identity) privilege, heterosexual privilege, economic privilege, able-bodied...
People will always respond differently to the story of a sexually abused third grader than they will that of a young woman who is violated by a friend at a booze-soaked house party. There is a kind of...