Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana, Please call me K. I am in a long-distance relationship with my girlfriend who is in the […]
Straight cis men never refer to their male friends as their boyfriends. So, why do straight women continue to refer to their platonic female friends as such? It’s 2016, ladies. In 2014, at the ripe old age of 24, I finally got myself a girlfriend, and I was amped about it. I was in love. […]
This originally appeared on BlogHer.com. Republished here with permission. There’s no bleeding gash, no bruised face. No drinks were spiked, no windows were smashed. But your soul is in shreds. And I believe you. Post contains depictions of sexual assault that may upset some readers. I believe you. Even though your face isn’t bruised, even […]
This originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. These are a few bits of hard-won wisdom I wouldn’t mind shouting out to my past self. “Strange things are afoot at the Circle K…” Points if you recognize that line from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, which gave the world many things including a young Keanu Reeves. […]
