Why You Should Sleep With Feminists. Like, right now.
Twelve reasons why you should have sex with feminists.
Read MoreCat-Calling and Rape Culture Go Hand-in-Hand
Catcalling is a way of removing a woman's voice. How many times have you witnessed/experienced/heard about a woman responding to a catcall with a loud "fuck off" which only encouraged the man to follow/harass/chase her? In my world "fuck off" means "no." But in the world of cat-calling, "fuck off" means intimidate, harass, or yell louder.
Read MoreMy Kind of Partnership
Looking back, one of the reasons I could never see myself in partnership was because I always saw it as a compromise of identity. To be partnered, I reasoned, I would have to choose one person to love, I would have to reject parts of my personality, I would have to deny my own ambitions. This is what traditional marriage looked like to me: endless stories of women giving up careers to have babies or men giving up personal ambitions to support a family. College degrees squandered, zippy cars traded in for mini-vans. It all looked so dreary to me, and yet I had no alternatives to look to.
Read MoreOpen Wide
Economy of language is a wonderful thing- I admire writers who are able to express in three words what others take paragraphs to say. I overwrite- a big part of my most recent edit is getting rid of superfluous adjectives creating overwrought descriptions, and a lot of redundancies. I know my verbosity is due to insecurity at to how I am perceived. I tend talk a lot to ensure I am understood. The problem with this is that it doesn’t give me or my listeners/readers a whole lot of...
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