I’ve been thinking a lot about Taylor Swift To be fair, I think about her quite a lot But more recently, the criticisms She’s too soft She’s not political enough She’s too rich She wears too much glitter She went to her fiancés football game She’s too political, also, somehow The public has a lot…

I find myself wishing I were Medusa With snakes for hair and the ability to turn men to stone It no longer seems like a curse

They will call a woman crazy before they admit that a man is

In my thirties, I got pepper spray It’s bedazzled to make it feel less terrifying than the reality is I got it because I worked briefly at a gas station as a cashier last year it was attached to a casino with a bar all I could think of was working at a place with…

There’s another man who allegedly abused his wife that’s coming out with a new movie I’m majoring in screenwriting and every time I think maybe I should talk more about film there’s another one, smiling, up on the screen and I keep on worrying about winding up in a cult or tied to some horrible…

I spent a week in my room bleeding from something that was deemed a biological necessity and curled up in bed watching as the news talked of terrible men doing terrible things and no one did anything and the only thing that kept me from screaming was the small apartment that I lived in and…

Your thoughts and prayers are with the victims Victims do not want thoughts and prayers They want justice crowns toppled heads off French Revolution justice To sleep at night knowing the person that hurt them can no longer hurt anyone else not sitting comfortably in a palace or in positions of power I want your…

I’ll choose the monster any day because at least the monster might choose me who knows what a man might do