I didn’t grow up knowing I was pretty. Which is weird, because I remember being told it. I remember hearing it from my family, and family friends, and occasionally a teacher or two here and there (in an appropriate way, not in a woah-creepy way). But even at a young age I had a tendency for self-deprecation, […]
(This is another repost, originally published in June 2013) I feel like I’ve been transported back to the fifties. On Facebook. At least three times in the last few months, I’ve seen some variant of this: “If men aren’t doing xyz it’s because the women in the relationship aren’t ALLOWING them to.” Or: “If your […]
(This was originally published in May 2013, in a slightly edited form at Kelly Diels’s blog as a guest post; I’d like to collect most of my writing into one spot on the internet, so I’m reposting this and some other pieces. It’s also worth noting I’m not on medication any more which is a […]