X-Men

Lessons from blue dudes with tails and girls who can walk through walls

She

If you want to know how it feels to be a woman, watch Mulan.

Young

I am twenty-eight. In the eyes of the law, I have spent 18 years as a minor and 10 as an adult. I do not understand how I can be considered fully grown when I have lived most of my life as a child.

At eighteen, I wanted nothing more than to drive fast cars on pin-straight freeways. I spent…

Zodiac

The struggle to love the woo-woo while keeping it science-real

Roadtrip

This October, I drove from San Francisco to New York City. Three stories from the road:

I is for Innate

The most important thing I learned this year

Virtue

Teen dramas and how we write an ugly future for women

Quick warning:

M is for Makeup

A semi-feminist ramble about slapping on the oxblood

H is for Hayes

I moved to San Francisco in 2009 at the tail end of the recession. In defiance of 55 “Sorry, we can’t hire you’s,” flat out no’s and…

Pouring

A tiny portrait of Spinoza, God and the universe