I’m a yoga pants girl who rarely wears makeup. But man do I love a good wedding. Getting dressed to the nines, slipping into some sexy heels, and imbibing all the wine—I soak up every minute. Known for my signature one arm up “woo-hoo!” move (which hasn’t changed since college, […]
Isms & Social Justice
This column includes commentary on injustices that continue to plague society in the 21st century. Discussion topics include racism, feminism, sexism, mistreatment of the LGBT community, poverty, and mental health, among others. How can we find fairness for our children in this often unfair world?
I Deserve Better. So Do You. This is Why We Marched.
They told us to shut up. They told us to sit down. They told us that even though he says he can grab a woman, and even though the most anti-LGBTQ politician in the country is his VP, and even though he mocked a person with a disability, and even […]
Two More Innocent Black Men Shot (The Next Hashtags)
Have you seen #terencecrutcher and #keithscott start to flood your newsfeed? Is it getting hard to keep them all straight in your mind? Philando Castile. Alton Sterling. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. Michael Brown. Trayvon Martin. That’s what we do now, right? We watch the videos of innocent black people die because of their perceived […]
Thank You, Media, for that Stunning Picture of Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton is no wall-flower. Agree with her or not, she gets what she wants because she works tirelessly for it. She is truly relentless. And as of last night, she’s almost there. In 2001, she became the first wife of a president to seek and win public office […]
Elie Wiesel, I Will Be a Witness
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” (Elie Wiesel, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize) I remember the first time I read Night—in high school. I was moved by Elie Wiesel’s words, but I was also distracted by high school naivety and the superficiality of my very safe, very stable […]
#alllivesmatter—But Do They?
The older I get, the more I see what is painfully obvious: Our nation remains burdened by the plague of racism. And yet, while I find this fact to be indisputable, so many disagree. For every fellow American who nods along with me and laments our pathetic state of racial disparities, there seem […]
This Is What Transgender Looks Like
This is not a post about bathrooms. Or about laws being passed to regulate who uses which one. This is a post about humanity. Every human being walking down the street, visiting your local restaurants, working alongside you at your place of employment, passing you in a car, is just […]
I Am A Feminist For You
I see the way eyes roll and the room gets quiet when I proudly declare that I am a feminist. I hear how people—both men and women—spit the word out as if it were a sour grape. I know, and accept, that over the past century, this word has picked […]