What I struggle with most is not what I don’t know, but what I do. Read more
If I Have A Child, They’ll Be Black In America — And This Terrifies Me
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What I Learned When I Gave Up Booze For A Year
I saw intentional sobriety as a choice that carried the potential to completely reshape my life. Read more
I Don’t Fight Because I’m Violent — I Fight Because The World Is
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
Stay Here Or Stay Nowhere: When Poverty Calls The Shots In Your Relationship
By Jonna Ivin Content warning: Descriptions of abuse You have nothing to complain about. I don’t beat you. He’s drunk. Some nights are bearable. Others need to be waited out. Hours earlier, he groped at my tits and tried to shove his hands down my pants. Now he’s pissed off. He’s up. He’s down. Six beers this. Ten Read more
The Jewish Laws On Sex Have Strengthened My Marriage
The Torah offers yet another version of improbable partnering with The One, but when you dive deeper, much of its advice is predicated on work. And strict laws. Which I realize seem antithetical to passion, but I’m here to tell you it’s quite the opposite. Read more
How Mensa Helped Me Deal With Schizophrenia And Depression
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Coming Out As Gay Was Easy — Coming Out As Autistic Was Hard
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Why Are You Afraid Of Love?
I tried to change, close my mouth more… At the birth of Lemonade, we awaken to images of Beyoncé alone and naked in her thoughts. All at once on a stage, in a field, in a dark room with her body contained. By this time, I am open and crying; not yet understanding everything that is Read more
Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ Is The Epitome Of Black Girl Magic
“We could therefore say that every mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother, and that every woman extends backwards into her mother and forward into her daughter . . . the lives of her ancestors pass down into the generations of the future.” Read more
Diaries Of A High Femme Whore
I am an ambassador of reality and fantasy. I sit in on meetings and report back from two worlds. I contain multitudes. Read more