Role Reboot

What Happens When You Tell A Woman She’s Being ‘Dramatic’

Being labeled “dramatic” served not only to shut down my ability to talk about my traumas, but enabled my parents to deny they ever happened. (Trigger warning for rape.) There is no trauma so devastating that a dose of familial guilt cannot make it worse. My sister called me at work late on a Friday […]

On Growing Up With A Mother Who Fat-Shamed Me

Just because I do not represent someone’s ideal of beauty, they are not allowed, by their actions, to negate me. If you hang around my mother and me long enough, you will hear the Onion Ring Story. I honestly don’t know why she tells it. Maybe she thinks it’s a cute childhood anecdote that should […]