Against “Don’t Read the Comments”

Here’s a spoiler: **Preventing abuse online requires the people running a site or an app to invest time, effort and attention into protecting their community.** That’s the bottom line.…

What I Learned From Dating Women Who Have Been Raped

If you told someone that a man had learned jiu jitsu after being attacked, I think the vibe would be “well, that’s pretty reasonable.” If a bisexual woman decided to date only women after being raped, the vibe would be “**oh, she’s broken.**”…

My God, I Love You People

In case you needed a pick-me-up this week, The Bloggess sparked some spontaneous twitter sharing of everyone’s most embarrassing social interactions.…

How Sexism Affects Women’s Health Every Day

All over the world, women, for a variety of reasons, experience much higher rates of pain than men…Yet, doctors discount women’s reports of pain and are more likely, when treating women, to discount women’s experiences of pain as emotional or psychological discomfort that they have to learn to live with.…

Things that help me cope

I have anxiety and depression. Some days I conquer the world and help the people around me, and others I’m lucky if I changed out of my robe or ate something more than an avocado.…