Tonya GJ Prince

We’ve been conditioned to treat “no” like a legal defense—a deposition that requires a boyfriend, an excuse, or a calendar conflict to be valid. It’s time to flip the script. …

Can you imagine being pressured to center males in work for women and girls in a world where there is still girl-child marriage? Little girls can’t identify out of that. …

 Harm does not always arrive announcing itself as hatred. Sometimes it comes smiling, agreeing with 80 percent of what you say, and spending the remaining 20 percent figuring out exactly …

Before Claire Douglas became J.D. Salinger’s twenty-one-year-old wife, she was a Radcliffe student with writing of her own—short stories, plays and essays. Then, at Salinger’s request, she burned them. She …

I thought I knew Sylvia Plath. I swear I did. I mean how you “know” a person you study. I liked her work, and time and again I answered college-level …

What does political resistance look like when the movement that might have named your experience does not yet exist? What happens when you live a political identity before there is …

  Women are often asked to demonstrate competence while simultaneously reassuring everyone that their competence has not made them less pleasant. Just a reminder…….             …

Someone on X.com said these wise words: One of patriarchy’s hidden rules is that men have a right to feel good about themselves. The golden rule for women is that …

I’m actually tired of seeing articles whining about women not being nicer to men from mainstream publications, as we see videos and articles of women and children being murdered by …

Human dignity doesn’t require pretending our characteristics don’t exist.  What is reductionism? Imagine you have a best friend named Maya. Maya loves drawing, hates peas, tells funny jokes, runs really …