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Category: abuse

Persona Non Grata: My Experience with Adam Foss

November 18, 2020.Reading time 15 minutes.

No one ever talks about how sexual harassment disrupts your ability to just do your damn job.

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Stop Publicly Defending Your Friends

March 3, 2020.Reading time 10 minutes.

At the end of the day, the best way for us to help our friend and their victim is to react in private.

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You Deserve a Partner Who Texts You Back

July 3, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

Maybe not immediately, maybe not every single time, but reliably and honestly and with care.

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To Read In Case I Am Ever Murdered By a Man

November 20, 2018.Reading time 12 minutes.

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.

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“What a Wallflower Wants” Is a Ground-Breaking Romance Novel for the #MeToo Moment

December 7, 2017.Reading time 16 minutes.

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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What The Bold Type Gets Right — and Wrong — About Social Media Abuse

July 21, 2017.Reading time 13 minutes.

The Freeform series gave us a ground-breaking depiction of online abuse, but it’s far from perfect.

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Book Review: Roadhouse Blues by Malin James

July 11, 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

Malin James weaves something hot and unrelenting out of her experiences as a survivor to create fiction that pulses with dark life.

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It’s STD Awareness Month 2017. Please Show Up For Us This Year

April 2, 2017.Reading time 9 minutes.

STI stigma isn’t considered a real issue by the feminist community, the body positivity community, or the larger social justice community.

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Milo Yiannopoulos, Bill Maher, and The Voices We’ve Lost Since The Election

February 18, 2017.Reading time 15 minutes.

There is no silencing Milo Yiannopoulos.

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10 Essays I Wrote In 2016 That Taught Me Who I Am

December 30, 2016.Reading time 12 minutes.

What a goddamn year.

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