I was out in the field yesterday collecting data for one of my projects and while I was standing on a tall bluff overlooking the ocean with the sunlight streaming through the clouds and my hair whipping across my face and into my mouth and nose, I thought – if this isn’t nice, I don’t […]
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how I would raise a feminist daughter, one who is able to see her own privilege as well as others’, one who knows she deserves to be taken seriously because she’s a human being with autonomy, one who values her brain and her body, one who will […]
I know that we, as feminists, are supposed to accept everyone based on their personality and actions, as opposed to their gender. But that didn’t stop me from deciding to find out the gender of our fetus baby. My baby. I’m planning on carrying my pregnancy to term, it’s a wanted and planned pregnancy, […]
This is a piece I wrote a few days before I had a hysterectomy to treat a prolapsed (meaning it burst through the cervix like an alien baby through a Nostromo crew member) fibroid tumor. The surgery started at the exact same time as President Obama’s inauguration, I made the joke during surgery prep that […]