That first week after our wedding, we lived in a pink cloud of newlywed euphoria laced with malaise. You wouldn’t have thought we had both just experienced the best day of our lives. Four weeks ago, I woke up utterly depressed. I had just married the love of my life a few days earlier, so […]
Watching Amy Schumer’s show reminds me that eradicating misogyny from the world is as much an inside job as it is a fight to be won out there. One of the many facets that I appreciate about comedian Amy Schumer’s work is that she shines a light on the cultural conditioning that keeps women in […]
Any kind of societal or internalized conditioning that makes a woman feel ashamed about owning and embracing her sexuality has got to go. A few years ago I was asked to participate in a storytelling show. The piece I read was called “My Vibrator Story.” I had written it in a workshop and test read the […]
