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
Perhaps most important is the message that our word choice sends to those who we don’t know are listening. Read more
We owe it to kids like us to make sure they have stories all their own. That way maybe they’ll know who they are before they’re grown. Read more
It’s a problem of epidemic proportions because it has an impact on all of us. What makes it “silent” is our inability or unwillingness to talk openly about shame and explore the ways in which it affects our individual lives, our families, our communities and society. Our silence has actually forced shame underground, where it now permeates our personal and public lives in destructive and insidious ways. Read more
I know now what it’s like to stay with someone who takes and takes and takes. Read more
By Anna Pulley Nothing perplexes people quite like the combined topics of women and pornography. Do ladies love porn or hate it? Do they hate it but still watch it? What kind of woman gets into porn? What kind of woman gets off to it? Can Fifty Shades of Grey be blamed? Or Sasha Grey? Porn Read more
I am an ambassador of reality and fantasy. I sit in on meetings and report back from two worlds. I contain multitudes. Read more
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Marriage as the neoliberal answer to systemic, structural problems like poverty displays a willful ignorance about what marriage is and isn’t and what the state can and cannot do. Read more
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