Flying fat is not an insurmountable challenge. Image from Wikipedia. Last month I dug into how and why fat travelers experience anxiety while flying. This time I’m here with a…
8 Dedications to Women, for Women’s History Month
Be proud and be aware. Image from Flickr Creative Commons user jnyemb. It seems that every day, every week, every month is aimed at awareness. Pink Hijab Day. African-American History…
Tightrope Feminism: Palatable vs. Pushy
Feminism feels like a tightrope; it’s time to dive off. Image from theblueroomblog.org. I was recently reminded of the conservative nature of the town I live in. In preparing me…
Discovering Your Life Path through Travel: A Future for Our Stories Untold
After falling in love with every Paulo Coelho quote I ever saw, I decided I needed to read a book by this prophetic man. Naturally I picked up The Alchemist,…
The B-Word: Why we still use it, and why we should stop
“Bitch” has taken on countless meanings, but is it really a reflection of something deeper? Image from wallpapers.rs. I had one of Those Moments the other day, driving into work…
Let’s Get Naked, Grandma!
Have you ever been scrubbed down by a Korean grandma–someone else’s Korean grandma? I have, and it was delightful. Perfectly painful, yet peaceful at the same time. Of course, the…
Being a Mormon Woman: What it Feels Like.
Right now, there a lot of people with thoughts on what it’s like to be a Mormon woman. Along with those who watch from the outside and speculate on Mormon…
Politics, Politics, Politics
Dia ar sábháil! Since my article a few weeks back about vaginal protests and politicians attempting to legislate idiocy, very few things have changed. We have some victories- such as…
Snatchels
I have a long history of struggling with strong feelings for my country and trying to balance my loathing for its incredible capacity for stupidity with a deep…
Up On the Table
“Try angling it down,” the dark-haired woman suggested to her student. The student maneuvered a bit, then said, “Is that it?” Both women peered in close, their heads nearly touching…
Gaslit and Fuming
I haven’t written a personally emotional entry in a while, but the topic of manipulation gets me so riled up that I am breaking the trend and writing from experience….
It Takes Two
Since five minutes after Marvin proposed, people have been asking me wedding details. I remember calling one of my friends with the ring freshly placed on my finger. “Congratulations!!!” she…
In memoriam
. . . On this day in 1989, a 25-year-old man named Marc Lépine was angry. He had been rejected yet again from the École Polytechnique, an engineering school…
Les implications de la langue, or how I learned to obsess about language
Note: this article is also posted on Not Another Wave. A few years ago, a friend and I were talking about language and gender balances. I don’t remember how we…
Redefining Feminism
Feminism has a very long and convoluted history around the world. It connotes a broad variety of political values and social causes, often differing from one self-proclaimed feminist to…