I never understood the statement "I'm for equal rights, but I'm not a feminist." It always seemed particularly amusing in women but even when men tell me that I laugh. I understand that the feminist movement is not perfect, it has disenfranchised transpeople particularly--and I can understand the bitterness in identifying with a movement that has ignored, silenced, and even insulted or bullied a...

PrefaceIt's been weighed, it's been measured, and pretty much every feminist with brain cells has found it to be wanting. I am realizing that I shouldn't even make this post. Mostly because there is little I can say on the Twilight Saga that hasn't been said before, however I do need to vent something out as I have began to work on a supernatural-gothic tale of my own that I know is going to be...

EDIT: A big thank you to ladyschrei who pointed out my mixing of children and adult television. In originally writing this post I didn't even think to separate children and adult programs because of two big reasons A) Children watch a lot of adult programs, or at least are in the room as their parents watch them. This I feel is undisputed fact, I think, because most reasonable people know at least...

As a nineteen year old woman with no college degree to her name, no big career in saving lives, and no long standing experience with legal or political process or dialogue I wouldn't blame you for not taking my words to heart. I am not the most experienced, I am not the most read, nor am I the most overworked. I am simply starting out on my journey and therefore the perspectives I am about to...