4 Books to Read If You’re Worried You Don’t Know How to Love
Here is my curriculum for the emotionally lost and intimacy challenged.
Read MoreAuthor: Ella Dawson
Ella Dawson is a rowdy millennial who cares too much about The Bachelor. Her passions include sexual health and education, feminist erotica and social media.
To Read In Case I Am Ever Murdered By a Man
Here is where you can find evidence of motive and intent so that no one tries to erase the role of misogyny in my death.
Read MoreHow to Feel When the Good Die Young
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.
Read MoreWe Are All Public Figures Now
You become a public figure the instant that someone else decides you are worthy of interest, even if you are minding your damn business.
Read MoreTwo Bisexuals Talk About Pride, Bi Erasure and Fan Fiction
“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.”
Read MoreWatch This Charming Short Film About Having Sex After a Herpes Diagnosis
People living with herpes are real, and we deserve to see our experiences in film. Here’s a start.
Read MoreHow the New Facebook Algorithm Affects You, a Normal Person
Are you seeing a lot of irrelevant crap in your Facebook feed? This is why.
Read More“Bad Sex,” Or The Sex We Don’t Want But Have Anyway
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.
Read More“What a Wallflower Wants” Is a Ground-Breaking Romance Novel for the #MeToo Moment
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.
Read MoreHow I Became Internet Famous for Having Herpes — and Why I’m Retiring
The moment you go viral, you lose all control over your story, your privacy and, in some ways, your future.
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