Role Reboot

Hello Kitty Is Not A Cat, But A Girl…Without a Voice

Sexism is so normalized that we don’t even notice that this iconic female character doesn’t have a mouth—the body part that would allow her to speak her mind. I remember walking into the Sanrio store as a little girl and thinking I had landed in heaven. No other store in our suburban mall carried what […]

The Moment I Became My Mother

Becoming your mother is often unavoidable. But is it always a bad thing? Something terrible happened this year right before my 38th birthday: I became my mother. I was just standing in my kitchen cutting up a cantaloupe. Isn’t this something women face in their 50’s? Or after they have their own kids? I swore […]