Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy

Growing up with autism is a never-ending series of lessons in how people without autism expect the rest of the world to relate to them. This goes double for those who — like me — went undiagnosed until adulthood: the instructions are far…

What Happens If You Plan a Strip Club Birthday When You’re a Lesbian: The Idiot Speaks

To Parents, From a Trans Kid

A letter from a 12-year-old transgender boy

14 Fucks I Refuse to Give in 2014

Forget about New Year’s Resolutions. This year, I’m making a Fuck It…

“Why do women try to get ahead by pulling men down?”

I see comments along these lines pretty much every time the issue of gender inequality in tech comes up. A lot of men (and sometimes women) respond to women suggesting that men have to give up their privilege by saying “So you’re saying…

Orientation Police

I’m gay. I date men. Some of those men have vaginas.

Why Having Kids In Your 20s Is Actually Awesome and Not Awful

Because it is.

So you wish you were a woman living in the 1950s? No, you don’t.

‘50s-style glasses have made a…

It’s a Man’s Phone

My female hands meant I couldn’t use my Google Nexus to document tear gas misuse