Mini-Post: When To Throw a FitHello, loyal followers (all ten of you)! I'm working on a new long post, I promise- it will be an investigation of fandoms and their...
Mini-Post: A Christian Gertrude Stein?This post is a brief companion piece to my last post, Please Don't "Protect" my "Purity", which responded to a post from the Christian...
Please Don't "Protect" My "Purity"If I had to pick one topic that fuels my feminist anger with the most intensity, I would probably pick unrealistic beauty standards and...
The Rocky Road Paved With Your "Good Intentions"There is an aphorism that says: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Now, the general definition of an aphorism is "a short...
Weekly (Sort of, Not at all) Love Letter: CATSBefore we start, an update on our favorite kitten Sugar: she has been adopted! Yay! Now for the meat: Today I enjoyed in a guilty...
Being a BodyDuring my last year of grad school, during maybe our tenth all-school meeting on diversity, inclusiveness, and cultural competency, the...
Weekly (sort of) Love Letter: Monkeys, Playmaking, and Essay-ficationObviously, I have slacked a bit on my weekly love letters- but as my mom told me via text message, I shouldn't let something ("something"...
Living and Working and Living Some MoreThis week, I auditioned for a summer Shakespeare company. Had they hired me, it would have been the perfect gig: they were doing three...
I Used To Be A Cool GirlI used to be a cool girl, I used to laugh when my boyfriend made jokes, when he said "it's best to have sex with fat girls because they...
In Beauty There Is PeaceThis I believe is true. I don't mean beauty in the bastardized, modern, fashion-magazine sense. I don't mean beauty as in skinny white...