Tag: gender & sexuality

“Papa, you look like a girl,” laughed Cookie Monster. “Why?” replied Hapa Papa. “Is it because I have Sasquatch in an Ergo*?” “Yeah!” I had to interject....

There should be a special kind of swagger after you complete a shit ton of housework. Or a badge of honor. Whatever it is, it should be obvious, huge, and awesome. After all, I just spent two entire days doing several loads of...

Around the end of May, I was seeing a lot of hysteria on my FB feed from my religious friends (not all of them, mind you – nor even the majority of them – but ENOUGH of them) going out of their proverbial minds...

“So, what do you ladies do?” The hairy, overly tanned middle-aged white man asked. My friend, Laney, and I had been busy chatting in the hot tub on our last day together when Bob*, with the self-importance only a...

Content Warnings: mentions of rape, sexual assault, and incest. I remember we were in our church’s bathroom, talking about our week. My friend casually mentioned how she had snuck out of her house to meet a boy at the park...

The other day, several of my friends and I were lamenting about our mothers (and to be fair, our fathers and society has certainly contributed to the conversation) and the fucked up things they say to our daughters about beauty...

We all say we want our kids to be special and unique and to be themselves. But is this really true? What if their true selves are jerks? Or rude little punks? Should we let them be “themselves” then? If I am honest...

When I was free and unencumbered with children, I would read articles by SAHMs about how they would have to do laundry every single day. I couldn’t fathom it. I only did laundry when I ran out of socks or underwear (my two...

Trigger Warning: Abortion, rape, incest Comment Warning: My comment policy will be vigorously enforced. Any comment (on FB or otherwise) that smells even remotely of shaming, name-calling, abuse, general asshattery, (on either...