A SYTYCB entry Girl: I have no self-confidence, and I’m really ditsy and klutzy. Guy: That’s so adorable! Girl: Stutter. Guy: I love when you don’t talk or make eye contact. It makes you so mysterious. Girl: I am like so average, what on earth could you possibly see in me? Guy: It’s hard to [...]

An SYTYCB entry The disastrous Gorilla vs. Bear review brought to attention by Audra Schroder at the Dallas Observer is only part of a tired decades-long chain of reactions to female musicians who perform outside their prescribed gender roles. This has been going on since the first-ever Riot Grrl convention, which USA Today featured alongside an article poking fun [...]

*Editor’s note: NSFW My friends had built up the First Time as a scary experience. They told me to expect it to hurt for me and feel good only for him. Part of me came to dread the occasion and resent its supposed inequality — perhaps the same part of me that internalized the ubiquitous view [...]

I’d like to present a thought experiment. The state requires a mandatory penile exam. Is it rape? To those who call the mandatory ultrasound bill rape but would not consider the above situation rape, ask yourselves why. I’m not trying to tell you whether or not the ultrasound bill should be considered rape. But if it [...]

Four years ago, I was determinedly approaching death’s door. Though they don’t think of it this way for their own sanity, my family would have already buried my body by now if there were no intervention. Because that is what my eating disorder wanted, and it was running the show. Now I know I have [...]