I wonder how women are supposed to navigate this world where the judicial system is not on our side. Where we must be polite to the strangers following us home so that they don’t kill us. Where we must stay in dangerous relationships because, statistically, our chance of being murdered dramatically increases once we leave. […]
Much like our hosts, the winners, at times, seem to have been chosen out of two boxes—one white and traditional, the other from the larger and unwieldier box called “diversity.” Few things bore me faster than people who talk on social media about how boring and irrelevant and overlong and stupid Awards Show X is. […]
Before this year (finally) comes to a close, we wanted to take a look back at the 10 pieces that you all, our loyal readers, liked and talked about the most. As always, thanks for your support. Here’s to a happy and healthy 2019! I’m A Straight Woman And I’m Scared To Date In Trump’s […]
Rather than tell a single woman to change, we need to keep focused on the entire system. This year marked five years since the publication of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. It quickly became part of the zeitgeist, an offhand reference to the work women must do to succeed […]
She built us worlds and made them homes. We feel nostalgia for her films and television because she fills her viewers with the thing we’re yearning for: a sense of belonging. I am neither a movie person nor a sports person, a Laverne and Shirley person nor a Tom Hanks person, but Penny Marshall meant […]
Though LGBTQ+ youth make up about 7% of the general population, they disproportionately comprise 40% of homeless youth. On Saturday, Cyndi Lauper demonstrated her true colors, by throwing her annual sold-out benefit concert in New York to raise money for LGBTQ+ homeless youth. While fundraising efforts are critically important, we need policy change in order […]
So in the spirit of defending a woman’s right to be an imperfect human being: Hillary Clinton does not owe you shit. Not at a Starbucks, not in the woods, not at George H.W. Bush’s funeral. If you’re a woman, I want you to take a second and think of a time that a stranger […]
The notion seemed genius: women profiting from their own objectification. We were using the doggish nature of men against them, swindling them out of their money by over-charging for low quality food and service in return for wearing crop tops. I loved it. I stood smiling while twirling a hula hoop around my bare waist. […]
