“Then these vets would come back to me. That’s what’s really impressive to me, when vets find that path with cannabis, they always are determined to share that with the world . . . They would always have their spouse or their kid in tow to corroborate their stories. Over time it was really compelling.” Read more
It is the compliance of the masses that perpetuates and sanctions government control. Read more
“When we prevent a person from making their own moral choices about their pregnancy, we undermine their humanity.” Read more
I was 18 when I first started asking men to hurt me. It began innocently: a request for a hand around my throat, usually in the heat of the moment to take the edge off. Some men obliged, reaching for me without a second thought, but most of them balked, fearing that they would bruise me Read more
What I struggle with most is not what I don’t know, but what I do. Read more
I saw intentional sobriety as a choice that carried the potential to completely reshape my life. Read more
Despite the difficulties of facial disfigurement, my life has been worth living and my future child’s will be, too. Read more
I was in my early twenties when I first joined Fight Club. I’d recently started watching mixed martial arts championships on TV, and I was intrigued. I fell in with a group of similarly curious and equally untrained women, and together, we started attending a martial arts and MMA club that was held in a Read more
On Labor Day, I call loudly for sex work to be decriminalized worldwide. Read more
Black History Month, the Olympics, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday, Kwanzaa, Nigerian Independence Day — my mother looked forward to these days like they were Christmas.
