The Power of Harassment

How to Cry at Starbucks in Just a Few Easy Steps

Or, How I Know Men Really Don’t Ever Ask For…

Casual Predation

To know a predator, you must know what it is to be prey

The other day while riding a Paris train, a man boarded my car and, out of all the empty places to sit, chose the seat directly facing me. He casually sprawled his legs open so…

Towards a history of sexism in STEM fields

In order to understand the nature of sexism in STEM, we…

WHAT I’VE LEARNED TO EXPECT

“Hey bitch!” someone yelled.

Drinkups Are Rape Culture

Bodily autonomy isn’t only about sex.

My youngest brother has a lot of allergies. No, a lot of allergies. They’ve gotten a little better with age and medication, but time was, even smelling milk or eggs or walnuts or cherries or any…

Never Should Have Smiled

just another professional encounter gone south

Be Quiet and Accept the Compliment

Entitlement is such a funny damn thing 

I was nine when I started puberty, and from the beginning it was less a gentle blossoming into adulthood than series of car wrecks slamming into me. I had been prepared for a…

Don’t Push That Button

Sexual harassment, science, and personal history