Tickled
Aiden could tell from half a block away when a woman was going to say something to him on the sidewalk. It was something about the hungry look in their eyes. The visible, perverse anticipation on...
View ArticleShort Not Sweet
The initial challenge of this project was to turn all my sordid, strange, Seattle non-relationships into one-paragraph stories. My roommate had been consoling me, “this was a chapter in your life, and...
View Article1200 Calories
I don’t know why “1200” managed to be the magic number of calories women should consume if they want to lose weight. I don’t even know how I know of this number. Only that I know it, and my friends...
View ArticleThis Trendy “Strong is the New Skinny” Thing (and what it could mean for the...
This girl is 17 and a CrossFitter. She’s obviously a genius and a badass. *UPDATE: Here’s a PG-Version of this blog post, for those of you who wish to Spread the Strength among those of innocent ears*...
View ArticleIt is no fun being a Feminist Killjoy
It is no fun being a Feminist Killjoy (as the name would imply). It is no fun being the girl at the Seahawks party who asks the friend-of-a-friend that she just met to stop yelling the word “raped”...
View ArticleNational Domestic Violence: The abusive relationship of the U.S. and Black...
Abuse doesn’t come from people’s inability to resolve conflicts but from one person’s decision to claim a higher status than another. So while it is valuable, for example, to teach nonviolent...
View ArticleWhy You Should Care About Eating Disorder Awareness Week
Hi all! Today I’m going to talk about something that strikes very close to home for an unfortunately large number of people: Eating Disorders. As many of you know, I’ve had my own issues with...
View ArticleProtected: 5 short stories for 5 Now-strangers
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View ArticleSexism and my “Truman Show” moment
The usual spate of year-in-review articles by the media has made it clear that 2014 was a great year for feminism. Note: It was a great year for feminism, not necessarily a great year for women. 2014...
View ArticleExperiencing racism as a multi-racial person
*Disclaimer: This is a short story about my personal experiences, and I in no way wrote this to make broad generalizations about any race.* I’m half-asian and half-white, so people are racist to me...
View ArticleAdventures in Online Dating
I often say that publishing writing online is akin to publishing naked photos online. It freaks me the fuck out. It puts me in a very vulnerable position, open to scrutiny, criticism,...
View ArticleLow Wages are Slowly Strangling the Creative Class
Income inequality is going to be a defining issue of our generation, no doubt. But one issue I think isn’t getting enough attention, possibly if not definitely from ignorance, is the mere existence of...
View ArticleAn open letter to everyone who has told women “Don’t get too muscular”
This post was originally written as a guest post for Tony Gentilecore, and was first published on his blog here. I have been strength training for about two years now. Before that, I was a...
View ArticlePersonal: Should I Start Online Dating?
Hi readers! In lieu of my 2-years single anniversary (yes, I did take myself out on a date), I have decided to take matters into my own hands. I had always considered online dating to be for people too...
View Article“Inner Beauty Doesn’t Exist”
Oh lawdy lawd. Ok, many of my blog posts are often prompted by people being assholes, and me explaining exactly what about their behavior makes them crappy human beings. Osmel Sousa, the president of...
View ArticleMini-Post: Calling All Men
I lead a privileged life. I was at a 4-day music festival the weekend of the Isla Vista shootings, and upon my return I scrambled to catch up to the wildfire that started as a conversation about...
View ArticleDress Coded: An Education on (unnecessary) Sexualization
When one Illinois middle school cluelessly decided to ban leggings & yoga pants because they were “distracting to the boys”, they probably didn’t have any idea it would be the catalyst to a...
View ArticleStuff My Exes Taught Me
Hi everyone, just your least-favorite, most aggressively feminist blogger whittling away the hours of her short life here. If you’re reading this then you were lucky enough to catch me at an “open”...
View ArticleThese Female “Privileges” Suck (but also prove my point)
Dear Mark Saunders, I see that you are a writer of men’s issues, and have taken it upon yourself to expose some of the insidiously institutionalized sexism that American men suffer from on a daily...
View ArticleBecoming a Lady-Beast
Hello! So with the flurry of media attention my blog has been getting as of late, I’m also getting a ton of questions from fellow ladies about what my exercise & diet plan looks like. I’m a huge...
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