Stop Calling It “Casual Sex”
Our concept of “casual sex” has given us permission to be casual with each other’s humanity.
Read MoreAuthor: Ella Dawson
Ella Dawson is a sex and culture critic and a digital strategist. She drinks too much Diet Coke.
Herpes And Shame, Six Years Later
Healing isn’t fun or narratively appealing: it’s a whole lot of pulling off scabs and dissecting long broken bones that didn’t set properly. It’s hard.
Read MoreValentine’s Day On a College Campus: Hallmark and the Hookup Scene
In an environment where caring is usually a weakness, what do you do about a holiday centered on showing that you care?
Read More5 Ways Companies Can Treat Social Media Managers Better (Beyond Paying Them More)
Interns do not run the social media accounts of most companies, and social media is a real field staffed by real professionals who have real expertise. We’re also commonly undervalued, underpaid and emotionally taxed.
Read MoreSuicide Radio
The challenge of suicide radio isn’t not obeying it. The challenge of suicide radio is identifying it for what it is: an impostor.
Read MoreEnough with the “Social Media Intern” Jokes
Stop treating social media as either a force destroying democracy or a pointless, shallow field that doesn’t require professional expertise.
Read More4 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 MoreTo 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.
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