C’mon, it’s not even a creative insult. It almost always happens like this. I’m walking down the street and some guy honks his horn or shouts out of the side of his car. Or maybe he’s walking down the street toward me and grins and makes some kind of comment. “Hey, baby.” I don’t even […]
Quitting isn’t a dirty word. Growing up I remember being excited to take an exam I’d seen my upper classmates take already – it was supposed to tell you what kind of career you were best suited for. Once you got the results you could begin mapping out your life – what college you were […]
Wake up: you don’t get to decide what I can and can’t wear. I am so, so tired of being told what’s right for my body. For once I’m not talking about politics here. I mean literally being told what’s right for my body, how if my body is apple shaped I should wear one […]
Do we really want our daughters to grow up thinking they’re not good enough because of their size? Fatphobia, or the bizarre fixation a good chunk of our society has on being terrified of becoming/being/seeing/touching anyone or anything that has to do with fatness, hurts everyone. As someone who identifies as being a fat woman, […]
Fidelity is about communicating with the people you’re seeing, following the rules you set for yourselves, and talking it out when those rules are no longer working. Our worlds are changing. We’re becoming more aware of other cultures, other religions, other practices within our communities and others. We’re starting to dissolve the idea of a […]
