Hey you, get out of my way!
I’ve always been a high achiever. One of the only people in my high school class to move farther than five hours away for college, I attended a top ten school then moved to New York to start my real-person life. I’m simultaneously proud of what I’ve accomplished (woohoo! Go, me!) and frustrated about where [...]
...read moreMy Sluthood, Myself.
Last summer, I suffered the breakup of a relationship that I had thought would be permanent. Now, I’ve been through my share of break-ups, even of quite serious relationships, but nothing ever broke me like this one. Since then, I’ve had sexual interactions of the orgasmic kind with 9 different people, none of which I [...]
...read moreOscar Grant, Audre Lorde, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the question of loving our enemies.
[Trigger Warning: discussions of sexual assault and deadly State force.] Love your enemies. For feminists, is there any phrase more terrifyingly reactionary? Love your enemies. Even the one who assaults you in private and reaps accolades as a brilliant community organizer in public. (One of my mom’s former boyfriends.) Love your enemies. Even the ones [...]
...read morePTSD and Healing After Sexual Trauma
This post is a part of the Feministe series on Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Before I really get started, this is a piece about how you, a rape survivor, can regain a sense of wellness after the fact. This is neither a professionally nor universally designed plan of action to combat PTSD or heal one’s [...]
...read moreInsurance Company Revokes Depressed Woman’s Benefits Over Facebook Photos
A woman who was receiving extended sick leave benefits due to depression has had those benefits revoked by her insurance company. Why? Because they found photographs on her Facebook page in which she appeared to be enjoying herself: Nathalie Blanchard, 29, has been on leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Que., for the [...]
...read morelovers in a dangerous time
I know introductions seem to be the thing, but I’m going to jump in with both feet first and we’ll go from there. I’m Little Light, I blog here, and I’ve been a Feministe guest blogger before. Most of you know who I am. What I do is preach. I wrap that preaching up in [...]
...read moreWhat I Wish People Knew About Cancer
I feel funny writing this this because I feel like I’ve said and written so much about my mom’s cancer diagnosis and fight over the last year. Yet people still don’t get it. Cancer, I mean. And in all fairness why should they? Is it because by 2010 cancer will be the leading cause of [...]
...read moreCaty Simon and the Virtues of Vice (part two)
Oh, LOL. Sike. Before I go, I present the conclusion of my email interview with the one and only Ms. Caty Simon. Part one is here. Why do you think people on all sides of the issues involved have such strong feelings about Natalie Dyan and the choices she makes/made about how to make money [...]
...read moreCaty Simon and The Virtues of Vice (Part One)
Soon after I was asked to guest blog at Feministe I emailed my internet friend Caty to ask if I could interview her for one of my posts. She maintains the fabulous blog The Virtues of Vice and is generally one of my favorite people to talk with about politics or pop culture or pretty [...]
...read moreThoughts on disability and respectful language
There are several different topics I’m trying to write about. Sometimes, when I start typing, the words just flow out and I end up in a totally different place than I was intending to go. The following was part of another post, but it was just too incongruous with the style of the rest of [...]
...read moreEmails from my mother
Okay, here’s what you need to understand going in: my mother is mentally ill, most likely with borderline personality disorder (characterized by certain patterns in a person’s social interactions). She is extremely passive-aggressive, as well as manipulative and emotionally abusive. Around sixteen years old, when I was just beginning to realize how fucked-up my family [...]
...read moreListening to Madness
This is an interesting article on an issue I know very little about. Thoughts?
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