It's Not That Bad
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Why “lineage” is more important to patriarchy than parenthood
It feels like the media has been full of men denouncing women for not being mothers lately, or for being mothers, but not in the specific way they deem acceptable. We’re too old, too young, too career-focused, too reliant on men to pay for...
Exercise Isn’t a Moral Test: On Society’s Looksmaxxing Obsession, Persistent Fatphobia, and Learning to Love the Gym Anyway
For years, I felt embarrassed exercising in public. I didn’t want people to see me out of breath or sweating, even though it is a natural consequence of moving. Hiding myself in big t-shirts; not pushing myself past a certain point so that...
Pressure Cooker
The final essay in my 30th year series.
This is the final essay in my 30th year series. At the start of every month this year I have published an essay on my journey out of my twenties and into my thirties. Thank you for being here for it!...
The Needle Shift: I’m Glad Everyone’s Finally Over the Kristen-Bell-Dax-Shepard-style Relationship Dynamic
Women have been collectively unlearning what we’ve been told a good relationship looks like.
On The Choice Vortex
Sylvia Plath’s ‘fig tree analogy’ has been going viral recently on TikTok. Imagine explaining TikTok to Sylvia Plath. Anyway. It’s become the literary reference for Gen-Z, and is often cited by young women as their version of the ‘Roman Emp...
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