My favorite articles of 2020 all coalesce thematically around “freedom,” which I am currently writing about in book form. Threading…
“Borrid.” That is, “boring meets torrid.” Credit for this magnificent term goes to USC’s Karen Tongson, who coined the word…
Hi Readers, I just wanted to send a quick note about some cherrypicked tweets that have been circulating across social…
Lesbians have been given a gift — a film by us, starring us, and for us. Clea DuVall’s Happiest Season…
If the goal is liberation, “Who is Oppressed?” is not a particularly productive question, as even the most powerful of…
A few years ago, I read a popular academic feminist book in which the popular feminist author said she was…
NBC Think asked me to write a short, 200-word reflection on my recent article on Ellen, George W. Bush, and…
If reading was the most noble act, for Ellen, then writing was the most dangerous. This is why at the…
I’m tickled to have had a “fire tweet” on Buzzfeed’s AM/DM — a simple tweet calling out the sexist double…
Colonoscopy I am the opposite of someone who is crippled by anxiety. When I am anxious about something, I…