If women are going to progress past misogyny, we have to stop succeeding at any cost. I’m an ardent Hillary Clinton supporter. I stood in line for hours to hear her speak during the 2016 campaign; my daughter took a selfie with her after the event. I voted for her proudly in 2008 and again […]
A survey finds doctors aren’t spending enough time with patients in the first place. You’re supposed to be able to tell your doctor anything. But how are patients supposed to know what to tell their doctors if the doctors don’t ask the necessary questions in the first place? When it comes to sexual health screening, […]
#MeToo started as an outcry of anger and anguish. But retributive justice swiftly followed. I. Bring It On Like many female authors digging for material in the darker recesses of personal history, I’ve written about my experience of sexual assault. And that of my sister, meaning my actual blood sibling. And that of my sisters […]
You can’t claim to be a part of the resistance if you’re not willing to be uncomfortable and take risks. One year ago, I joined hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and took to the streets for the Women’s March. It was a crisp, cold day in Seattle and as I marched through the streets […]
It makes zero sense to me why we continually belittle women in a conversation that they have been trying to have with us for decades. My fiancé and I were talking about Aziz Ansari last night, and how his “sexual-encounter” with “Grace” seemed like it fell into this murky, gray area where some people think it was […]
We not only survived: we thrived, in spite of. I spent the last remaining days of 2017 with my family. At times, catching up looked more like taking inventory of what we’ve been through over the years, both collectively and alone. Remember that time the Christmas tree went sailing out the door? And the time he […]
She isn’t even running. Just like many other media-loving Americans, I was watching the Golden Globes on Sunday night when Oprah “The-closest-thing-we-have-to-royalty” Winfrey accepted a lifetime achievement award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in front of the who’s who of Hollywood. The speech brought down the room, reminding everyone why the program’s host Seth […]
The commonality of sexual harassment is not because all men are bad, but because of the culture in which we raise boys to become men. The past three months have been a whirlwind of reckoning in nearly every sphere and industry, from Hollywood to Washington, D.C., and every place in between. Sexual harassment and assault—topics […]
