Want To Support My Herpes Work and Mental Health? Tip Me!

July 18, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

Being the Face of Herpes doesn’t pay well.

Editor’s Picks: Ella’s Best Blogging of 2015

December 26, 2015.Reading time 10 minutes.

All while Ella was busy this year going public and getting famous, I’ve had the immense pleasure of sitting tight behind the scenes and watching. As the now-official editor of her blog, I get to read everything she writes for this site—usually before it publishes, sometimes right after, depending on how big it’s going to […]

San Francisco Is My Biggest, Proudest Failure

December 6, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’ve been thinking about San Francisco. My friend and I have a pact to get tattoos next May and the only symbol I can imagine marking myself with permanently is the Golden Gate Bridge, a doodle I’ve been sketching for years. The City by the Bay was the first city I ever fell in love […]

Why I Cut My Hair

September 21, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’ve been offline. Or as offline as someone who works in social media can be. Somewhere around my site hitting 14k hits in a single day, somewhere around seeing my face appear over and over again on my Twitter feed, somewhere around co-worker #8 coming up to me in the kitchen and saying, “I SAW YOU ON […]

Bachelorella: The Bachelorette Gets Real About Online Harassment

July 20, 2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

The producers of The Bachelorette made an interesting choice during tonight’s “Men Tell All” episode. Between the awkward reunions and desperate attempts to rebuild reputations, Kaitlyn Bristowe and Chris Harrison had an honest conversation about the tidal waves of harassment this season’s Bachelorette has received online. In a controversial move, Harrison read out several real […]

Dear Class of 2015 (or, Dear Me 365 days ago)

June 4, 2015.Reading time 10 minutes.

If this letter seems late, that’s intentional. I wanted to wait until you needed it. Tomorrow you’re moving to Berkeley and you’re going to need a friend. Nowhere is going to feel like home in the same way campus did, but it took college a long time to feel like home in the first place. […]

Journal Entry: Brooklyn

March 8, 2015.Reading time 6 minutes.

She moves to Brooklyn into an apartment with white plaster walls and long, narrow windows. Light pours in from the courtyard, and at night the neighbors’ lives play out next to hers, close enough to touch. She thinks a family lives just across from her, judging by the little kid drawings on the fridge, but […]

Book Review: Best Women’s Erotica 2015

February 14, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

I’m having trouble writing this review of Best Women’s Erotica 2015 because I just want to say, “I masturbated a lot to this book.” As someone who lives and breathes erotica, I rarely find it sexually arousing to the point of needing to release tension. The more erotica you read, the less novelty there is […]

My 1st Blogiversary: Here’s what I wrote this year (with GIFs!)

January 7, 2015.Reading time 6 minutes.

One year ago today, I started this blog. I remember the moment I hit publish for the first time surprisingly well: it was a very cold night in January, and I sat at the kitchen island of my campus apartment with my laptop and a Diet Coke in an old-fashioned glass from the Dollar Tree. My blog was […]

Bachelorella Week 1 Recap: In praise of the sloppy drunk girl

January 6, 2015.Reading time 14 minutes.

When I first committed to recapping this season of The Bachelor, I have to admit I was nervous. This blog is home to various feminist pop culture commentary, and The Bachelor franchise is widely agreed to be one of the most sexist programs on television. Had I bought into the marketing? Was I being duped […]