Emily Shepard stepped out of the social expectations for what a woman is supposed to do. And it was awesome. Ever since I proposed to my boyfriend, people have been calling me a badass. I’m not sure I’ve ever been called a badass before. I don’t particularly live life on the edge, as it were. […]
This originally appeared on Dear Me. Republished here with permission. Women are 50% of the world. Half. And yet so often, they are othered, which means that women are treated as outsiders, as the deviation from the norm (the norm being men in this case). This sounds like a terrible thing, and one we’d all […]
Emily Shepard discusses the importance of letting kids be who they are—even when it goes against what society says they should be. In first grade, I said I wanted to be a boy. I demanded short, spiked hair and my favorite shirt had a surfing T-Rex on it. I am not a transgendered person. At […]
