Women

Court cases are fascinating. Human behavior is fascinating. Law is fascinating. We are allowed to look. We also need to remember how to look. I am sharing this article from …

Remember those standardized tests where you practically got a few points just for following directions? Write your name in the correct box. Fill in the bubble completely. Use a No. …

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. …

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 …

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 …

Taylor Townsend was sixteen years old and already the No. 1 junior girl in the world. She had won the Australian Open junior singles title, collected major doubles titles and …

I do not have to dismiss myself simply because someone else does. There is a dangerous distance between “we don’t know” and “there is nothing there.” Women often meet that …