I sat across from my 18-year-old niece last week, as she told me her frustration with other girls talking bad about each other. “I just don’t get it,” she said, “you don’t know what they’re going through. What kind of pain they’re in. It’s easy to make judgments. I try really hard to never talk bad […]
Category: feminism
Are you lifting people up or pushing them down?
In January, I convinced myself to take a singing class. Something I thought I’d never do… again. If you knew me back in high school this would seem weird because, I used to sing all the time. I was in the choir, every musical, I took voice classes, I was even in a girl band. […]
Are we really all that different?
I went to Morocco a month ago. I had never been to a Muslim country before, and I’d be lying to you if I said I wasn’t a little afraid. But, as we arrived at the hotel, (one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever stayed), I walked out onto our deck and over a […]
The Good Guys vs The Creepers
It’s been an interesting week to be a woman, to realize how connected we are in sexual assault. Even writing that statement is infuriating. As I reflected on my own life, and all the times I was degraded, touched, violated because I’m a woman. To be a woman is to deal with these things with […]