The only thing I can compare her death to is if someone picked up the needle from a record in the middle of a song—no scratch, just sudden silence where there used to be a voice and rhythm and the strum of a guitar. You wonder if silence has ever been this loud before.
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You become a public figure the instant that someone else decides you are worthy of interest, even if you are minding your damn business.
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Let me be clear: “bad sex” isn’t rape. By “bad sex,” I mean the sex we have that we don’t want to have but consent to anyway.
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The moment you go viral, you lose all control over your story, your privacy and, in some ways, your future.
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“It’s kind of nice to just say, f*ck it, it doesn’t matter, I’m going to be me, or we’re going to do us, and claim the freedom to figure your shit out.”
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People living with herpes are real, and we deserve to see our experiences in film. Here’s a start.
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Are you seeing a lot of irrelevant crap in your Facebook feed? This is why.
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This gorgeous romance novel can teach us a lot about how to honor the experiences of survivors, stand up to perpetrators and acknowledge the flawed social norms that allow rape and harassment to thrive.
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This is a complicated story where no one wins.
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The Freeform series gave us a ground-breaking depiction of online abuse, but it’s far from perfect.
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