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Why don’t you treat men this way? The false dichotomy of “mother vs. artist”
This post of on combining art and motherhood made the rounds this past winter. There were a lot of responses, public and private. Two of the more recent responses made me feel like revisiting the...
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Stephen Fry is right about trigger warnings – he’s especially right about...
People are calling Stephen Fry’s comments about sex abuse victims “an extraordinary attack,” because he had the temerity to suggest that trigger warnings on literature are bullshit and that self-pity...
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From Pavel Sheremet to Trumputin: my summer 2016 links for your reading pleasure
I don’t usually archive the links to the work I do elsewhere, but it’s been a long summer with few updates, and I thought you guys might like to take a look at a few of these anyway: An important...
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Tornado of Shrieking Demon Heads (The Calm the Fuck Down Song)
Calm the fuck down, bitch Calm the fuck down Get it together or get out of town Oh you crave a crisis Just to feel important You’re jerking off again To a tornado Of shrieking demon heads And other...
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Uppity lady writer wanted bodily autonomy and respect. What happened next...
Today on Facebook I reposted a powerful essay by my friend Anna Lind-Guzik – the essay deals with sexual harassment and the awful feelings that presidential candidate Donald J. Trump evokes in many of...
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Love thy neighbor: in Trump’s America, some of your neighbors need it more...
I’m going to share with you guys two stories sent in to me since the election. Two events that occurred in a country that has elected Donald J. Trump. The first is from a Nepalese American woman who...
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Writing round-up, 2016: Six non-horrible things that happened this year
I’m not really sure what to say about the year 2016. “At least we didn’t all die in a nuclear blast” is one good thing I could mention, I guess. On a personal level, it was a year of disappointments...
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The humiliation of “real Russian women”– and why conservatives get off on it
“A woman owes it to everyone to be beautiful!” “You’re not a real woman if you don’t look feminine enough!” “Some guy’s dick didn’t get hard when you walked by? Kill yourself, you ugly piece of shit.”...
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From Woke Vets to the Putin Paradox: news of note from me
I recently made my Coda Story debut writing about the controversy surrounding a new movie made by an ostensibly pro-Kremlin filmmaker. This is what happens when you let religious extremism run...
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I’m a Rape Survivor With #MeToo Fatigue: Here’s Why
I have a confession to make: I’m sick of #MeToo. Whenever I see the hashtag, I feel dread. I lived through rape, abuse, and torture, so this is, in one sense, a personal reaction — reminders of...
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